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Ex Garrett Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 437. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Uncertain region (Spoletium?). Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.36 g, 7h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Constans II (641-668). ∂ N CONSτAN-τINЧS P P AV, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VTORI-A AVCC:, cross potent on three steps; CONOB. Cf. MIB III pl. 26, X1. Good VF, lustrous. Extremely rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984), lot 564 (purchased from Wayte Raymond, 15 November 1922).

From part of what must have been a very small issue of Italian imitative solidi copying Constans II. Hahn’s coin X1 in Naples has a distinct monogram copied from the Rome mint in the reverse field, but otherwise this coin comports closely with it, both stylistically and with the inclusion of the distinctive spelling of VTORIA. In the Garrett sale, the cataloger noted that the coin had Ravennate features, particularly the thick reverse border, but as the coin does not share any characteristics of the known Lombard issues of northern Italy, it was suggested it belongs to Spoletium, a duchy in central Italy that otherwise lacked its own coinage.