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Auction XXII  7-8 Oct 2021
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Lot 903

Estimate: 4000 GBP
Price realized: 6500 GBP
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Lombards, Beneventum. Luitprand AV Solidus. In the name of Justinian II, AD 742. DNI - - INVSPP, crowned and bearded bust facing, wearing chlamys, and holding globus cruciger and akakia / VICTOR ΔGVSTO, cross potent on globe set on four steps; hand in glove with decorated hem in left field, CONOB in exergue. LBSI 33a (this coin); MIR 167 (uncertain); CNI p. 149, 1-2 (Interregno); Oddy NC 1974, 413 = BMC Vandals p. 97, 5, pl. 25, 11 (same dies). 4.12g, 21mm, 6h.

Extremely Fine; minor scrape on rev. Extremely Rare.

This coin published in A. D'Andrea and C. Moretti, The Lombards' coins of Southern Italy (Edizioni D'Andrea, 2014);
From a private UK collection;
Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 236, 7 October 2013, lot 1320 (attributed to Gisulf II);
Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Auction 205, 12 March 2012, lot 1288;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 30, 4 June 2005, lot 824 (interregno).
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