CNG 90, Lot: 2191. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Hildesheim (Bistum). Berno. 1190-1194. AR Bracteate (28mm, 071 g, 12h). Double-towered archway; above, half-length bust of Berno facing, holding crozier and cross; trefoil below; all within quatrelobe. Mödesse II 43a; Löbbecke 68 (Adelog von Dorstadt); Kestner 1096-7. EF, toned. Exceptional.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex European Private Collection (Sotheby’s, 9 October 1995), lot 432 (Part of); Kricheldorf XXX (5 April 1976), lot 975.