Extremely Rare Hermenegild Tremissis

Triton XX, Lot: 1099. Estimate $10000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VISIGOTHS, Spain. Hermenegild. Rebel, 579/80-584. AV Tremissis (21mm, 1.38 g, 6h). Unnamed (Sevilla [Seville]) mint. • ERMEN EGILDI, diademed and draped bust right; cross on drapery with crescents above and below / REGIA DE O VITA, Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm frond; OИO. CNV 65.1 (this coin illustrated); Pliego 61(a) var. (As not barred); Tomasini Group H3, 634 = Mateu y Llopis pl. VII, 73; Miles, Visigoths, Type B, 47a; MEC 1, –; ME 97. Near EF. Extremely rare. One of five known, with one of the five in the Museo Arqueológico de Madrid (MAN).

Ex Cernuda Collection.