Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1186. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Lombardy & Tuscany. Perctarit. 672-688. AR Unit (0.20 g). Class C. PER monogram / Incuse of obverse. Bernareggi 41; cf. BMC Vandals 16; MEC 1, 331. VF, toned, softly struck. Rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XII (26 September 1990), lot 1348.

These small silver coins with PER monogram were first struck as a bifacial issue with a bust on the obverse and monogram on the reverse. Eventually, the bust was removed, and the coins became uniface, with the monogram placed on the obverse. While their original designs were likely influenced by issues from Merovingian France, their denomination is unknown.