CNG 100, Lot: 386. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Tuscany. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Tremissis (12mm, 1.44 g, 8h). INVNV-VIONVI, stylized, diademed bust right / ΠIΘWVIVHOI, cross potent; ΛИΛN. Bernareggi, Moneta 16 (this coin illustrated); BMC Vandals 12 (same dies); MEC 1, 314 (same dies). Good VF, toned.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Virgil Brand Collection (Part 1, Sotheby’s, 1 July 1982), lot 93; Max Verworn Collection (A. Hess, 14 June 1922), lot 235.

As the Tuscan tremisses become thicker and more compact, their legends become meaningless.

Wroth (BMC p. 135) gives this and the two following types to the second reign of Perctarit (672-688)