CNG 100, Lot: 429. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Grimoald III. 788-806. AV Tremissis (17mm, 1.35 g, 6h). 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; CONO·B (B retrograde). CNI XVIII 32 var./corr. (without smaller pellet in mintmark/B is retrograde); BMC Vandals 15-6 var. (same). Near EF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Victor England, September 1984.