Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1083. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

OSTROGOTHS. Theodahad. 534-536 AD. Æ Follis [40 Nummi] (12.17 gm, 7h). Rome mint. D N THEO-DAHATVS REX, moustached and mantled bust right, wearing ornate Spangenhelm; mantle decorated with pectoral cross / VICTORIA PRINCIPVM, S C across field, Victory standing right on prow of galley, holding palm across left shoulder and wreath in outstretched right hand. COI 1c (B1-L3; this coin); L. Cuppo Csaki, "The Copper Coinage of Theodahad: A Reappraisal," Proceedings of the 11th International Numismatic Congress (Brussels, 1997), pg. 33; MIB I 81; BMC Vandals pg. 76, 22 (same obverse die); MEC 1, 141-143 . EF, mottled black-green patina with light green overtones. Bold, masterfully artistic style. The finest known. ($5000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Waddell List 74 (Spring 1999), lot 162; Tkalec (23 October 1998), lot 382; Aretusa 4 (22-23 March 1996), lot 765; Arcadius to Constantine XI (Leu-Numismatica Ars Classica, 26 May 1993), lot 470.