CNG 100, Lot: 418. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Liutprand. 751-758. AV Solidus (20mm, 3.94 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695, 705-711), with types of Anastasius II (713-715). Struck 756-757. D N – –IVN P P, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger and akakia / VICTVRΔ ΔςVSTVI (inverted Δs), cross potent on globe set on four steps; cross of four pellets above, L to left; CONOB. CNI XVIII 6 corr. (obv. legend) = BMC Vandals 2. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Kunst und Münzen FPL 51 (May 1983), no. 35.