CNG 100, Lot: 406. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Gregory. 732-739. AV Solidus (21mm, 3.93 g, 7h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695, 705-711). D N I-VC P PЄ, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTO ςVST, cross potent set on three steps; ς to left; CONOB. CNI XVIII 12/13 (for obv./rev.); cf. BMC Vandals p. 159. VF, thin flan crack, dig in obverse field. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Ponterio & Associates, June 1983.