CNG 100, Lot: 427. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Grimoald III. 788-806. AV Solidus (21mm, 3.68 g, 6h). Struck 792-806. GRIM – – VALD, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTORΔ PRINCIP (inverted Δ), cross potent on globe set on three steps; cross of four pellets above, ς-R across central field, pellet to either side of base; CONOB. CNI XVIII 24; cf. BMC Vandals 10. EF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Jonathan Kern, January 1984.