440, Lot: 554. Estimate $500. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Grimoald III, with Charlemagne, king of the Franks. 788-806. AV Tremissis (16.5mm, 1.24 g, 6h). + GRIM – – VΛLD, crowned, draped, and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger / DOMS (four pellets) CAR • (RX), cross potent; G R across field, pellets flanking base; VIC (wedge). Oddy 444; CNI XVIII 8; BMC Vandals 1; MEC 1, 1098. Good VF, minor edge split.