437, Lot: 549. Estimate $600. Sold for $686. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Lombardy. Uncertain king. Circa 568-690. AR Quarter or Third Siliqua (11.5mm, 0.55 g, 5h). Imitating a Ravenna mint issue of the Byzantine emperor Justin II. И (VK) (horizontal S) VI(retrogradeD)(retrogradeP)NI, diademed and draped bust right / Retrograde staurogram with open horizontal bars set on linear base; six-rayed star on either side; all within wreath. Arslan –; cf. MIBE X5; BMC Vandals 18; cf. MEC 1, 295-7 (issues in the name of Justinian I). VF, toned.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 93 (24 May 2016), lot 1265; Vecchi 8 (4 December 1997), lot 387.

Based on the style of this coin, it is possibly a Gepid imitation of the Lombardic type.