1 Tremissis - Liutprand Thin bust

Liutprand ruled the Lombard kingdom longer than any other king in its history — nearly three decades — and used that stability to push Lombard power to its territorial peak, repeatedly threatening Rome and forcing a series of desperate papal appeals northward toward the Franks. This tremissis was struck somewhere in that long arc, likely at Pavia, which served as the primary Lombard mint. The "thin bust" designation distinguishes it from heavier-relief variants within the same reign, a die progression detail catalogued by Arslan that reflects the gradual flattening of engraving conventions across the series.