Watch List notes:

VISIGOTHS, Spain. Wamba. 672-680. AV Tremissis (20.5mm, 1.44 g, 6h). Toleto (Toledo) mint. + I • D • N • M • N VVΛMBΛ RX, diademed, helmeted (or crowned), and draped bust right, holding cross pattée / + TOLETO PIVS, cross pattée set on three steps; pellet below. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe C3 (for type, bu without additional cross); CNV 476.2; Pliego 624a; Miles, Visigoths 386b; Chaves 305; MEC 1, 266; ME 391; Adams I, lot 373 (this coin). Traces of deposits in devices, miniscule flan crack. Good VF. Rare.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Dr. Lawrence A. Adams Collection (Part I, Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 373; Leu 41 (14 October 1986), lot 49.