CNG 100, Lot: 387. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Tuscany. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Tremissis (11mm, 1.49 g, 5h). IVNVΛ– –ΛINVII, stylized, diademed bust right; B before / IIIOIIΛVIO, cross potent; ΛNΛ. Bernareggi, Moneta 16a (this coin illustrated); BMC Vandals 1 var. (legends); MEC 1, 316 var. (same). Good VF, toned.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Virgil Brand Collection (Part 1, Sotheby’s, 1 July 1982), lot 95; Max Verworn Collection (A. Hess, 14 June 1922), lot 237.

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

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