CNG 100, Lot: 409. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Gottschalk. 739-742. Pale AV Solidus (20mm, 3.98 g, 5h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695, 705-711). DN I-INЧS P P, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTORI IVςVSTO, cross potent on globe set on four steps; D to left, ς to right; CONOB. CNI XVIII 5; BMC Vandals p. 161. Good VF, deeply toned, hairline flan crack, minor edge irregularity. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984), lot 569 (purchased from J. Schulman, 15 March 1922).