VISIGOTHS, Spain. Leovigild. 568-586. AV Tremissis (17mm, 1.28 g, 6h). Class 2. Elvora mint in Portugal. Struck circa 584. D II LIVVICILDVS, diademed and draped bust right; on drapery, upturned crescents above cross / ELVOR + A RE+, Latin cross pattée set on four steps; ONO. CNV 46; Pliego 52b6 (this coin cited); Miles, Visigoths 36a; MEC 1, 210; ME 73. Lightly toned, minor marks and flan flaws on reverse. Near EF. Extremely rare.
Ex Classical Numismatic Review XLV.2 (Summer 2020), no. 531992; Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins (Triton XXIII, 14 January 2020), lot 998; Caballero de la Yndias (Part III, Aureo & Calicó, 21 October 2009), lot 1243.