Watch List notes:

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Liutprand, with Scauniperga. 751-758. AV Tremissis (15mm, 1.36 g, 7h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian II (685-695, 705-711), with types of Anastasius II (713-715). Struck AD 751-755. D N – – IN P P, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger and akakia / VITIRΔ ΔςVTVI (inverted Δs), cross potent; cross of four pellets above, S to left, L to right; CONOB. CNI XVIII 11; cf. BMC Vandals 1. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica/Spink Zurich 52 (Part 2, 26 October 1994), lot 872.