Triton XX, Lot: 1129. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Grimoald III. 788-806. Pale AV Solidus (21mm, 3.85 g, 6h). Class 2. Struck 792-806. GRIM – – VALD, crowned, draped, and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTOR(inverted Δ) (four pellets) PRINCIP, cross potent on globe set on three steps; G R across field, C• ONO (retrograde B)•; trace of retrograde Є after first O. Oddy SG.462 var. (B not retrograde); CNI XVIII 23; BMC Vandals 12; cf. MEC 1, 1101. EF, areas of light toning, slight double strike on reverse.