CNG 100, Lot: 2082. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEROVINGIANS, Royal Issues. Childebert I. King of Orléans, 524-558. AV Tremissis (14mm, 1.45 g, 6h). Imitating Burgundian issue in the name of Justinian I. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck after 534. D N IVSTIΛИVS PP (AV), pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIΛ (filled inverted Δ) + ΛCVSTOR, Victory advancing right, holding wreath; pellet between legs; (retrograde C)INΛ. NM –; Belfort 5298 (same obv. die); Alise-Sainte-Reine Hoard 83 (same dies); cf. Lafaurie, Lyon, 36 (for type). EF.

Ex Collection d’un Amateur Bourguignon (Crinon-Alde 51, 14 June 2010), lot 30.