CNG 100, Lot: 350. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VISIGOTHS, Spain. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Tremissis (15mm, 1.44 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian I (527-565). Barcelona mint. D II IVSTIIII-ΛNVS P NI, stylized, diademed bust right; cross on chest / VICTOΛI IIOΛIΛVI, Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm frond; CONOC (last C retrograde). Tomasini Group JAN2, 250 var. (rev. legend; same obv. die); cf. MEC 1, 200. Near EF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Neuer Zürcher Münzbote 10 (March 1985), no. 25.

Tomasini dates his group JAN2 to circa 531-540.