Watch List notes:

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Gregory. 732-739. AV Solidus (20mm, 3.98 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695, 705-711). D N IV-V P PЄTV, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTO ΔςVST, cross potent set on three steps; ς to left; CONOB. CNI XVIII 17; cf. BMC Vandals p. 159. VF, a couple very faint scratches on reverse. Rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Superior (1 October 1984), lot 1288.