Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1673. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOMBARDS. Luitprand. 712-744 AD. AV Tremissis (1.27 gm). Pavia mint. DN LI TPRAN, crude bust right; P in right field / SCS MIHHIL, St. Michael standing left, holding long cross and shield. Bernareggi 8; Arslan 48; cf. MEC 1, 322 (P mark); cf. BMC Vandals pg. 143, 1 (P mark). EF, a trace of strike-through on the thin flan. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Sotheby's Zurich (27-28 October 1993) [Athena Fund Sale], lot 1832.