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Lombard Kingdom, Beneventum. Grimoald III and Charlemagne AV Solidus. AD 788-792. GRIM - ⧾ - VALD, crowned and bearded bust facing, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger / • DOMS (four pellets) CAR • RX • , cross potent on three steps; G-R across fields, VICA in exergue. LCSI 60; MIR 186; CNI p. 154, 3-5; BMC Vandals p. 171, 3-5; Depeyrot 141B. 3.87g, 21mm, 6h.

Extremely Fine. Very Rare.

Ex Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, Auction 87, 14 December 2020, lot 646.

Grimoald was the younger son of Arichis II and the first duke to place his full name on the coinage of Beneventum. From 788-792 he was a vassal of the Frankish king Charlemagne and together they defeated the Byzantines in Sicily. In 792 he made a bid for independence and replaced his title of Dux with Princeps.