Visigoths of Gaul. AV Tremissis in the name of Julius Nepos. Uncertain mint. Imitating Arles mint issue of AD 474-475. 1.5 g.

C (retrograde) N IVI NE-POS PF AVC, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Chi-Rho within wreath with curved ends.
Mintmark COMOB. 

RIC X 3766 (this coin); Lacam 94; Reinhart, Münzen, 16; Chwartz Collection 151.

Extremely rare.
Ex Edoardo Curti Collection; Bernard Chwartz Collection 151 (Alde auction, 14.6.2010); Guy Lacam Collection ("the collections of a Gentleman and of G. Lacam", auction Dürr/Michel, Geneva, 8 November 1999), lot 308; Leu auction 18, lot 405 (5 May 1977).

With permission of cngcoins.com, auction 94, lot 1561, Sept. 2013.