Lot 1264

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

Ostrogoths, countermarked coinage, (A.D. 493-533), AE 42 nummi (11.51 grams), XLII cut into an AE as of Galba, obv. head to right, XLII before, rev. Libertas left, S C across field, (Grierson & Blackburn, Medieval European Coinage 69 on RIC 425). Countermark very good, host coin fair, rare.