Triton XX, Lot: 1124. Estimate $15000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VISIGOTHS, Spain. Egica. 687-702. AV Tremissis (21mm, 1.42 g, 6h). Emerita (Mérida) mint. + I(ND) • INII • (ME) EGICΛ (RX), facing bust (of Christ?) / + EMERITΛ PIVS, Latin cross pattée set on three steps. CNV 538 var. (obv. legend); Pliego 706.3 (this coin); Miles, Visigoths 451 var. (obv. legend); Chaves –; MEC 1, –; ME –. Near EF, toned, minor flan crack and lightly clipped at 3 o’clock. Extremely rare, one of only three cited by Pliego.

Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA VII (27 November 2012), lot 1254 (where it realized CHF 30,000); Caballero de las Yndias Collection (Part III, Aureo & Calicó, 21 October 2009), lot 1376.