Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 1249. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANKISH KINGDOMS. Merovingians. Circa 7th Century AD. AV Tremissis (1.28 gm). Anatolium (Nanteuil-la-Fosse)(?) mint; Baltario, moneyer. NLNTOLIC, diademed and cuirassed bust right / + BLLTARIO•, cross pattée in circle. Cf. NM II, pg. 83, 1 (similar mint name); Belfort -; Prou -; MEC 1, -. Good VF. Unpublished in the major collections; Depeyrot records only one Merovingian tremissis from Anatolium, of a different moneyer and type. ($2000)