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Auction: 25055 - British Medals and World Coins featuring The Hurter-Amman Collection of Ancient and European Gold
Lot: 1101

Lombard Duchy of Beneventum, Grimoald III (788-806), Electrum Solidus, Beneventum, struck as Prince after AD 793, GRIM-VALD, crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger, rev. VICTORA ·:· PRINCE (the A inverted), cross potent on base and three steps, G-R in fields, C·ONO·B below (the B reversed), 3.80g, 6h (CNI XVIII, 22ff; MEC I, 1101 var.; MIR 119 var.; BMC Vandals p.172,10, and pl.xxiii, 7), small edge split at 9 o'clock, otherwise sumptuously cabinet toned and boldly struck, a really good extremely fine and much as struck, a most impressive coin

Provenance

The "Hurter-Amman" Collection of Ancient and World Gold and Silver Coins and Medals

Hans Nussbaum (Zurich), by private treaty, c. 1938 - Fr. 60


For Grimoald the title is usually PRINCIP (sometimes Princi). The title PRINCEPS (sometimes PRINCEP or, as here, PRINCE) is rarely seen for Grimoald, though it is usual for his successors.



Of the four Solidi with the title of Prince listed by Wroth in the British Museum, three are electrum. with one matching our coin in all details, though from different dies. (The metal composition for this example is Gold 64.59%, Silver 32.40% and Copper 3.01%.)

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Estimate
£500 to £800

Starting price
£420