CNG 100, Lot: 428. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Grimoald III. 788-806. AV Tremissis (17mm, 1.27 g, 7h). Struck 792-806. GRIM – – VΛLD, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VITORΔ PRINCIP (inverted Δ), cross potent with globe on shaft; cross of four pellets above, ς-R across central field, pellet to either side of base; CONOB (B retrograde). CNI XVIII 32 corr. (B is retrograde); BMC Vandals 15-6. Good VF, ragged edge.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, October 1982.