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301, Lot: 405. Estimate $500.
Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VISIGOTHS or MEROVINGIANS. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Circa 500-580. AV Tremissis (14mm, 1.08 g, 6h). In the name of Anastasius, 491-518. Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm frond; D in left field. Cf. Belfort 5120 = Tomasini Group A-Id, 31; MEC 1, –. VF, large obverse die flaw on back of head. Scarce.


Ex Vedrines (4 November 1992), lot 241.

The division between the Merovingian and Visigothic issues is not always clear.