CNG 100, Lot: 396. Estimate $500. Sold for $855. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS, Lombardy & Tuscany. Liutprand. 712-744. Pale AV Tremissis (23mm, 1.20 g, 11h). D(NL)V-TPRN, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; T before, (RX) on chest / SCS MIHL, St. Michael standing left, holding long cross and round shield. Bernareggi 122 (this coin); cf. BMC Vandals 3; MEC 1, –. VF, flan crack. Rare variety with RX on chest rather than in the legend.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, August 1982. Ex Ratto (20 January 1956), lot 411.