CNG 100, Lot: 419. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Liutprand. 751-758. AV Tremissis (15mm, 1.32 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695, 705-711), with types of Anastasius II (713-715). Struck 757-758. D N I – –INVS P P, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger and akakia / VICTOR VNSTV, cross potent; monogram (= L DVX) to right; CONOB. CNI XVIII 17; cf. BMC Vandals 7. Good VF, toned, light scratch in reverse field.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 3 (17 September 1990), lot 163; Rodolfo Spahr Collection (Leu/Münzen und Medaillen AG, 11 March 1987), lot 94.