Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2262. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Sicard. AD 832-839. Pale AV Solidus (3.78 g, 12h). SIC– –ARDV•, crowned and draped facing bust, holding globus cruciger; crown topped with cross; wedge in right field / VITOR• +PRINCI, cross potent on two steps; S-I, each with wedges beneath, across fields; CONOB (B retrograde). CNI XVIII 1 (electrum); BMC Vandals 3; MEC 1, 1108. VF, toned.

From the Marc Poncin Collection. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 1841; Empire Coins 4 (10 November 1985), lot 550.