Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1609. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $1125. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Salerno. Siconulf of Beneventum. 839-849 AD. Base AV Solidus (3.78 gm). SICO- -NOLFVS, crowned facing bust, holding globus cruciger; wedge to right / VICTOR•+PRINCI, cross potent on base; S I and wedges at sides. MEC 1, 1120; CNI XVIII pg. 298, 1; BMC Vandals -. Good VF. Very rare.($1000)

Ex SKA Bern 3 (19-20 April 1985), lot 794. 

Siconulf's brother Sicard was murdered at the outbreak of a civil war in Beneventum in 839. Siconulf retreated to Salerno, while Radelchis was proclaimed prince of Beneventum. The emperor Louis II ordered the two factions to make peace and divide the principality between them, but Siconulf's death in 849 led to further strife that devastated the land.