Grimoald III with Charlemagne

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 878. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Grimoald III, with Charlemagne, king of the Franks. As Duke, 788-792. AV Solidus (3.87 g, 6h). Type 2. GRIM (wedge) (wedge) VALD, crowned facing bust, holding globus cruciger / DOMS CAR•(monogram), cross potent on three steps; G R flanking, four pellets above, pellets flanking base; VICD. Oddy 445; CNI XVIII 5; BMC Vandals 7; Depeyrot 141B; MEC 1, 1098. Near EF, lightly toned. Very rare.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.