CNG 100, Lot: 412. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Gisulf II. 742-751. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.06 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695, 705-711). D N I– –INVS P P, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTOR ΔςVSTO, cross potent on globe set on four steps; monogram to left, ς to right; CONOB. CNI XVIII 1; BMC Vandals 1. Good VF. Rare and with very high gold content for the period.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Dr. Feori Pipito Collection (Superior, 13 December 1987), lot 1339.