Watch List notes:

LOMBARDS, Beneventum. Sico. 817-832. AV Solidus (22mm, 3.68 g, 12h). SICO P – – RINCЄ(retrograde S), crowned, draped, and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger / ARCHANGЄLVS MICHAЄL, the Archangel Michael standing facing, holding crook and globus cruciger; pellet to upper left; CONO. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 98; Oddy –; cf. CNI XVIII 1 (for type); cf. BMC Vandals 1 (for rev.); Arslan –; MEC 1, –. Toned. Good VF. Very rare.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 93 (24 May 2016), lot 1339; M. Ratto (20 January 1956), lot 472.