CNG 100, Lot: 456. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEROVINGIANS. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. AV Tremissis (17mm, 1.29 g, 6h). In the name of Byzantine emperor Justinian I? (527-565). VISVCITIΛΛVITIV(OV), crude diademed bust left / IИSIVC-И-VVIΓIV, Victory advancing left, holding cross and wreath; IИI. Belfort 5335 var. (rev. legend); cf. MEC 1, 366-8. EF. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Virgil Brand Collection (Part 1, Sotheby’s, 1 July 1982), lot 102; Max Verworn Collection (A. Hess, 14 June 1922), lot 291.