455, Lot: 468. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Grimoald III. 788-806. AV Tremissis (17mm, 1.19 g, 6h). Type 5. Struck 792-806. GRIM – – VΛLD, crowned, draped, and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VITORΔ (four pellets) PRINCIP • (retrograde B), cross potent; G R across field, pellets flanking base; CONO. Cf. Oddy 457; CNI XVIII 31; BMC Vandals 15-16 var. (no pellet after PRINCIP); MEC 1, 1099 var. (CONO). Toned, deposits, edge notch. Good VF.

From the J.B. Collection. Ex Collection C.G. (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 167, 27 June 2007), lot 213; Coin Galleries (19 February, 1998), lot 751.