Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2255. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Lombardy. Uncertain King. Circa AD 568-690. AV Solidus (4.37 g, 6h). Uncertain Italian mint. Struck in the name of Phocas, AD 602-610. ON FOLS PRP AVC, crowned, draped, and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger; crown with pendilia / Victory standing facing, holding staff surmounted by a Christogram and globus cruciger; I//CONOB. Arslan -; cf. MEC 1, p. 59; Numismatica Ars Classica 25 (25 June 2003), lot 644. Good VF, small areas of soft strike. Extremely rare.

This issue was struck during the reign of Agilulf (AD 590-615)