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1 Tremissis - Aripert II With letter in field
| Issuer | Kingdom of the Lombards |
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| Year | 701-712 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis |
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| Obverse description | Facing or slightly right-turned bust of King Aripert II in the field, depicted in the late antique Byzantine imperial style characteristic of Lombard coinage. The king is shown with long stylized hair and wearing royal regalia, rendered in a schematic, flat manner typical of early medieval hammered gold coinage. A beaded border encircles the design. The legend D N AR - IPE RX N, reading Dominus Noster Aripert Rex, surrounds the bust, identifying the ruler as sovereign. The flan is irregular, as is common for hammered tremisses of this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | SCS MI - HAHIL (Translation: Sanctae Michael Saint Michael) |
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Aripert II seized the Lombard throne in 701 by drowning his rival Liutpert in the Po River, then ruled for over a decade before meeting a nearly identical fate — fleeing to France in 712 with the royal treasury and drowning in the Alps crossing, allegedly weighed down by the gold he carried. The letter in the field on this tremissis is a workshop or moneyer mark, a practice borrowed from late Byzantine mint administration and used inconsistently across Lombard gold issues, which makes die-matching across specimens genuinely useful for attributing production sequences.