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LOMBARDS, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Circa 620-700. AV Tremissis (17mm, 1.44 g, 6h). Imitating a Ravenna mint issue of the Byzantine emperor Maurice Tiberius (582-602). Type I. Uncertain mint in Pavia (Ticinum [?]). Δ И MΛVR C TЬ P Ь VI, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIΛ ΛVIVITORVN, Victory advancing right, head left, holding wreath and globus cruciger; + to right; CONOR. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 30; cf. Bernareggi 1; Bernareggi, Moneta 1; Arslan 4; BMC Vandals 22; MEC 1, 303. EF.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Künker 205 (12 March 2012), lot 1255.
Invading Italy from the north in 568, the Lombards, 'unlike the Ostrogoths, came as enemies, without imperial authorization, and so were unable to take over the existing administration and run it in their own interests.' Their earliest coins are copies of Byzantine issues from Ravenna, 'distinguishable only by their blundered inscriptions and by a tendency on the tremissis to exaggerate the linear treatment and annular borders which are prominent features of Ravennate gold.' Grierson p. 12
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Künker 205 (12 March 2012), lot 1255.
Invading Italy from the north in 568, the Lombards, 'unlike the Ostrogoths, came as enemies, without imperial authorization, and so were unable to take over the existing administration and run it in their own interests.' Their earliest coins are copies of Byzantine issues from Ravenna, 'distinguishable only by their blundered inscriptions and by a tendency on the tremissis to exaggerate the linear treatment and annular borders which are prominent features of Ravennate gold.' Grierson p. 12