1 Tremissis - Liutprand / Struck by Ambros

Liutprand ruled the Lombard Kingdom for over thirty years — the longest reign of any Lombard king — and used that stability to push aggressively against Byzantine holdings in northern and central Italy, briefly seizing the Exarchate of Ravenna in 751 under his successor but laying the political groundwork for it himself. This tremissis was struck by a moneyer named Ambros, one of the few identifiable individuals in Lombard coin production, whose name appears on a small cluster of surviving gold issues attributable to Liutprand's long reign.