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.
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.