Triton XIX, Lot: 2203. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEROVINGIANS. Dagobert I. King of the Franks, 629-634; King of Neustria and Burgundy, 634-639. AV Tremissis (15mm, 1.23 g, 6h). Marseilles mint; Elegius, moneyer. ΔAGOCCRTV(retrograde S), pearl-diademed and draped bust right; C to right / (wreath) [ЄLЄG]IV(retrograde S) MO2, cross potent set on globe; M Λ flanking cross, V II flanking globe; all within pelleted border. NM Cf. 44 (for type); Lafaurie, Eligius 40; Belfort 2501 var. (legends); Prou 1395 var. (same); cf. Bernard Chwartz Collection (Part 2, Alde/Crinon, 14 June 2010), lot 226 (for type). VF, slightly wavy flan, edge nick at 1 o’clock. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Leu 44 (13 October 1987), lot 1001.