Watch List notes:

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Grimoald III, with Charlemagne, king of the Franks. 788-806. AV Tremissis (17mm, 1.27 g, 6h). Struck 788-792. GRIM – – VΛLD, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / DOMS CAR • (RX), cross potent; cross of four pellets above, ςR monogram to left, pellet to either side of base; VIC(triangle). CNI XVIII 10; BMC Vandals 8; L. A. Adams, "Charlemagne's Gold," SAN XIV/2 (Summer 1983), p. 30, fig. 1 (this coin). VF, short flan crack, minor weakness in areas, light scuff on reverse. Rare with GR monogram.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Peus 307 (9 May 1983), lot 453.