Triton XVIII, Lot: 1365. Estimate $750. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Late 5th century AD or slightly later. AV Tremissis (14mm, 1.37 g, 6h). Imitating a Constantinople mint tremissis struck in the name of Leo I. Uncertain mint. D N LEO PE RPET AVC, pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust right / VICTOΛIΛ ΛVCVSTORVM, Victory standing facing, head left, on globe, holding wreath in outstretched right hand and globus cruciger in left; star to right; CONOB. Cf. RIC X 611 (for prototype); MEC 1, –; cf. Pecunem 9, lot 830; otherwise unpublished. EF, lightly toned, struck with slightly rusty dies.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.