Watch List notes:

OSTROGOTHS. Witigis. 536-540. AR Half Siliqua (14mm, 1.41 g, 6h). Ravenna mint. Struck in the name of Justinian I, circa AD 536-538. DN IVSTI NIΛN P (ΛV)C, pearl-diademed and mantled bust right / DN/VVIT/ICES/REX in four lines within wreath. COI 63 (same dies as illustration); MIB 57; MEC 1, 151-2. Near EF, toned.


Ex Birkler & Waddell III (10 December 1981), lot 448.