CNG 100, Lot: 384. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Tuscany. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Tremissis (15mm, 1.50 g, 12h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Heraclius (610-641). D И HCVCI-VIII P P ΛVI (P’s retrograde), stylized, diademed bust right / TIVΛOITIΛΛIΛOITIV, cross potent; IOИOI. Arslan –; cf. BMC Vandals 38-9; cf. MEC 1, 301. VF, lightly toned, a few faint field marks.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984), lot 556; Baranowsky (23 June 1931), lot 92.