Watch List notes:

LOMBARDS, Lombardy & Tuscany. Ratchis. 744-749. AV Tremissis (23mm, 1.25 g, 1h). D N RATICIS •P• A(retrograde S)O +, facing bust, wearing hair in semi-circles around crown of head, mustache, and long beard; four pellets in cruciform shape on forehead above bridge of nose / SCS up left, IIIIIII down right, St. Michael the Archangel, helmeted and in military attire, standing left, holding cross-tipped staff in right hand and round ornamented shield in left. Cf. Bernareggi 138 (for type); Bernareggi, Moneta, –; BMC Vandals –; Arslan –; MEC 1, –. Good VF, lightly toned in devices, minor deposits in outer margin of obverse. Extremely rare, one of two examples of the type known.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Peus 349 (2 November 1996), lot 709 (Bernareggi reference incorrect).