136, Lot: 262. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

OSTROGOTHS or FRANKS. In the name of Justinian I. After 527 AD. AV Tremissis (18mm, 1.44 g). Draped and diademed bust right / Winged victory standing right, looking backward, holding globus cruciger and laurel wreath; 8-point star in right field, CONOB. Cf. Boutin 1086, Good VF, wrinked flan, scuffs.

One of the large group of amorphous imitative gold pieces that falls into the period between the fall of the Ostrogothic kingdom and the rise of the Merovingians.