CNG 100, Lot: 395. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Lombardy & Tuscany. Liutprand. 712-744. AV Tremissis (22mm, 1.30 g, 4h). D N LIV-TPRΛ(NRX), diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; M before / SCS MI-HΛHIL (S’s retrograde), St. Michael standing left, holding long cross and round shield. Bernareggi 78 corr. (rev. legend); cf. BMC Vandals 1; MEC 1, –. EF, lustrous.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Bank Leu, December 1987.