Watch List notes:

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Gottschalk. 739-742. AV Solidus (20mm, 4.13 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Leo III (717-741). D N LЄO P P, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / VICTO ςVS* (S retrograde), cross potent on globe set on four steps; ς to left; CONOB. CNI XVIII 17; BMC Vandals p. 161. VF, deeply toned, areas of flat strike, rays of star scratched off so that it resembles a pellet. Very rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Rodolfo Spahr Collection (Leu/Münzen und Medaillen AG, 11 March 1987), lot 88.

See lot 408 above for another coin where the star has been intentionally effaced in antiquity.