Rare Issue Struck Under the Suevi in Spain
From the Garrett Collection

CNG 100, Lot: 443. Estimate $5000. Sold for $20000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SUEVI. Municipal issues. Circa 570-580. AV Tremissis (15mm, 1.38 g, 12h). Emerita (Merída) mint. LΛTIИΛ EMERI MVИITΛ, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; triple pellets in right field / Cross pattée within double wreath with central jewel; lateral segments flanking; IOИIOC (C retrograde). Reinhart 51 (same obv. die); MEC 1, –. EF, two short flan cracks. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984), lot 618 (purchased from J. Schulman, 10 October 1925, for $126); Monteiro Collection, Lisbon.