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1 Tremissis - Desiderius / In the name of Uncertain Monogram
| Issuer | Kingdom of the Lombards |
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| Year | 757-774 |
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| Reference(s) | BernSistem#157, Arslan#62 |
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| Obverse lettering | D N DESIDERIVS REX (Translation: Dominus Noster Desiderius Rex - Our Lord Desiderius, King) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Desiderius was the last Lombard king, his reign ending when Charlemagne crossed the Alps in 774 and besieged Pavia for nearly a year before Desiderius surrendered and was sent to a Frankish monastery. The tremissis issues struck under his authority continued a Lombard tradition of copying Late Roman and Byzantine gold fractions — but the "uncertain monogram" attribution signals that scholars have not reached consensus on which mint or official this piece can be assigned to, a persistent problem across the Lombard gold series.