CNG 93, Lot: 1417. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. 5th century AD or slightly later. AV Tremissis (14mm, 1.49 g, 12h). Imitating a pseudo-imperial Visigothic tremissis struck in the name of Valentinian III. OIIICTSOO ICVTSIIOVC, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / DIIOTISPOOSOIIICCC (star over first O), cross pattée within wreath; OIIO. Cf. MEC 1, 333 (for type); otherwise unpublished. VF, traces of deposits. Extremely rare.

Ex Elvira Clain-Stefanelli Collection (sold previously as the ‘Demarete Collection’).