CNG 97, Lot: 816. Estimate $400. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Late 5th century AD or slightly later. AV Tremissis (15mm, 1.48 g, 5h). Imitating a Constantinople mint tremissis struck in the name of Leo I. Uncertain mint. D N LEO P ERPET AVC, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / YIC(retrograde Γ)ARIA AVCST(horizontal retrograde S)RV, Victory standing facing, head left, on globe, holding wreath and globus cruciger; star to right; C(retrograde Q)NOR. Cf. RIC X 611 (for prototype); MEC 1, –; cf. Pecunem 9, lot 830; otherwise unpublished. Near EF, struck with slightly rusty dies.