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CNG 100, Lot: 434. Estimate $750.
Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Sicard. 832-839. AV Tremissis (16mm, 1.35 g, 6h). SIC – – ΛRDV, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger; triangle in right field / VICTOR PRINCI, cross potent; cross of four pellets above, S-I across central field, pellet to either side of base; CONOB. CNI XVIII 12 var. (retrograde B in CONOB); cf. BMC Vandals 6. Near EF, toned.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Victor England Ltd., August 1984.

A slightly heavy specimen with an unusual portrait quite unlike the published examples. Possibly an ancient imitation.