1 Tremissis - Liutprando

Liutprand didn't begin his reign until 712, so a tremissis dated 700–701 falls under Aripert II, the last Lombard king before Liutprand's accession — a period of dynastic instability during which Lombard gold coinage was already a pale shadow of its Byzantine prototypes, progressively debased and stylistically degraded from the solidus-tradition coinage of earlier Lombard rulers. CNI IV#1 places this among the earliest referenced pieces in that corpus, though attribution of late Lombard tremisses remains genuinely contested given the anonymity and formulaic nature of the dies.