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<p>[QUOTE="Theoderic, post: 4329613, member: 110471"]Thanks for the interesting post. Guy Lacam's name in the title caught my eye as I have a tremissis of Leo I from the Lacam collection that I won at the Elsen 87 auction in 2006. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1098634[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1098635[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AV Tremissis (14 mm, 1.47 grams, 6h), Struck in the name of Leo I, circa A.D. 457-474, uncertain Italian mint</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: D N LEO PE-NPET AVC, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: VICTORIV AVCVSTORVN, Victory walking right, head left, holding wreath in right hand and globus cruciger in left; star in right field; CONOB in exergue</p><p><b>Reference</b>: cf. RIC X 611 for type</p><p><b>Provenance</b>: Elsen 87 (March 11, 2006), Lot 1848 ; ex Dürr & Michel (November 8, 1999), Lot 377, Guy Lacam collection</p><p><br /></p><p>They listed it as a Germanic issue from an uncertain Italian mint I'm assuming because of the style. However, every other Leo tremissis I've been able to find with the CONOB mark is described as being from the Constantinople mint. Unfortunately I haven't been able to obtain a copy of either Lacam's work or of the Durr & Michel sale catalog to see if they had additional info, but I've always been rather curious about this piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Theoderic, post: 4329613, member: 110471"]Thanks for the interesting post. Guy Lacam's name in the title caught my eye as I have a tremissis of Leo I from the Lacam collection that I won at the Elsen 87 auction in 2006. [ATTACH=full]1098634[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1098635[/ATTACH] AV Tremissis (14 mm, 1.47 grams, 6h), Struck in the name of Leo I, circa A.D. 457-474, uncertain Italian mint [B]Obverse[/B]: D N LEO PE-NPET AVC, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right [B]Reverse[/B]: VICTORIV AVCVSTORVN, Victory walking right, head left, holding wreath in right hand and globus cruciger in left; star in right field; CONOB in exergue [B]Reference[/B]: cf. RIC X 611 for type [B]Provenance[/B]: Elsen 87 (March 11, 2006), Lot 1848 ; ex Dürr & Michel (November 8, 1999), Lot 377, Guy Lacam collection They listed it as a Germanic issue from an uncertain Italian mint I'm assuming because of the style. However, every other Leo tremissis I've been able to find with the CONOB mark is described as being from the Constantinople mint. Unfortunately I haven't been able to obtain a copy of either Lacam's work or of the Durr & Michel sale catalog to see if they had additional info, but I've always been rather curious about this piece.[/QUOTE]
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