Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1842. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Siconulf, as Prince in Salerno. 839-849 AD. EL Solidus (3.73 gm). SICO--NOLFVS•, crowned and draped facing bust, holding globus cruciger; wedge in right field / VICTOR• +PRINCI, cross potent on two steps; S I, each with wedges beneath, flanking; CONOB. MEC 1, 1120; BMC Vandals -; CNI XVIII pg. 298, 1. Good VF, toned. Very rare. ($3000)

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.

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