★ Published in LBSI ★

Lombards, Beneventum. Gottschalk AV Solidus. In the name Leo III, AD 739-742. DN LЄO P P, crowned and bearded bust facing, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger / VICTO YS [✶], cross potent on globe set on four steps; Ϛ to left, CONOB in exergue. LBSI 30b (this coin); MIR 159; MEC 1, -; CNI p. 137, 16-17. 3.94g, 21mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine; minor metal flaw on rev. Very 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 Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 56, 8 October 2010, lot 556.