CNG 100, Lot: 449. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.38 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Anastasius (491-518). D N ANASTA-SIVS P P AVG, diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, holding spear and shield / VICTORI-A AVCCC, Victory standing left, holding long, jeweled cross; star in right field; H//CONOB. Cf. Chaves 45 (Visigothic Alaric II); cf. MEC 1, 343-8 (Merovingian). VF, light marks. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack’s, 5 May 1984), lot 1844 (Ravenna mint under Theoderic).