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Auction XXV  22-23 Sep 2022
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Lot 1137

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 4000 GBP
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Ostrogoths, Athalaric AV Solidus. In the name of Justinian I. Ravenna or Rome, circa AD 530-539. D N IVSTINIANVS P Γ AV(ligate)C, diademed, helmeted and cuirassed bust of Justinian I facing slightly to right, holding spear over shoulder and shield with horseman motif on arm / VICTORIA AVCCC (pellet)A, Victory standing to left, holding long voided cross, star to left, COMOB in exergue, pellets at end of exergual line. Ladich 4 var. (no pellet in legend, Rome); COI 36b2 (this coin, Ravenna); MEC I 122 var. (Rome, no pellet in legend); BMC Vandals 4 (Ravenna). 4.41g, 20mm, 6h.

Good Extremely Fine. Very Rare.

This coin published in M.A. Metlich, The Coinage of Ostrogothic Italy (London, 2004);
From the collection of Z.P., Austria;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 93, 24 May 2016, lot 1177;
Ex Lacam Collection, Dürr, M & Michel, R, 8 November 1999, lot 269;
Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG Basel, Auction 43, 12 November 1970, lot 540.
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