Watch List notes:

OSTROGOTHS. Witigis. 536-540. AR Half Siliqua (14mm, 1.26 g, 6h). Ravenna mint. Struck in the name of Justinian I, circa AD 536-538. Pearl-diademed and mantled bust right / DN/VVIT/ICES/REX in four lines within wreath. COI 63 (same dies as illustration); Ranieri 301; MIB 57; MEC 1, 151-2. VF, toned, heavy cleaning scratches, edge porosity.

Ex Künker 295 (25 September 2017), lot 1230; Hermann-Joseph Lückger Collection (Peus 417, 2 November 2016), lot 846.