CNG 100, Lot: 351. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VISIGOTHS, Spain. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Tremissis (16mm, 1.30 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justin II (565-578). Cordoba mint. (retrograde C) N IV(retrograde S)TIN-V(retrograde S) P P AV, stylized, diademed bust right; cross on chest / VICTOR-I-A AVG·I·, Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm frond; COИOB. Tomasini Group JII3, 450 (same dies); MEC 1, –. VF, slightly wavy flan.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 1, Sotheby’s, 1 July 1982), lot 99.

Tomasini places this issue under Leovigild, post 572.