★ Very Rare ★

No Reserve

Lombard Kingdom, Beneventum. Gottschalk AV Solidus. In the name of Leo III. AD 739-742. D N LЄO P P, crowned and bearded bust facing, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger / VICTO YS [✶], cross potent on globe set on four steps; G to left, CONOB in exergue. LCSI 30b (this coin); MIR 159; MEC -; 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);
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXII, 7 October 2021, lot 902;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 56, 8 October 2010, lot 556.