Lot 1263

Sale 57 · Important Australian & World Coins, Military Medals & Banknotes

Ostrogoths, countermarked coinage, (A.D. 493-533), AE 42 nummi (11.31 grams), XLII cut into an AE as of Vespasian, obv. head to left, XLII before, rev. Spes left, S C across field, (Grierson & Blackburn, Medieval European Coinage 71ff on RIC 560b). Countermark nearly very fine, host coin fair, rare.