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Live auction - bmv_518269 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Triens à la croix ancrée

UNSPECIFIED MINT Triens à la croix ancrée AU/AU
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Estimate : 2 800 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 29 January 2019 15:39:31
Type : Triens à la croix ancrée
Date: VIIe siècle
Mint name / Town : indéterminé
Metal : gold
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,20 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan court mais avec des types centrés et de frappe vigoureuse. Les légendes sont partiellement hors flan à cause du flan étroit
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : SDVLIVCV.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, les cheveux hirsutes et un ruban sur la nuque ; légende autour.

Reverse


Reverse legend : CADR(...)MV ?.
Reverse description : Croix ancrée ; légende autour.

Commentary


Comme si souvent avec les monnaies mérovingiennes, les types sont assez classiques et les légendes ne permettent pas de rapprochement pertinent avec d’autres monnaies publiées. À défaut d’exemplaire comparable publié et attribué, il est difficile de trouver l’origine de tel ou tel triens qui reste donc classé en indéterminé....

Historical background


UNSPECIFIED MINT

(6th - 8th centuries)

Many Merovingian coins, badly minted, with very poor or inexplicit epigraphy, cannot be attributed to a particular mint. Too rare coins unfortunately have the same problem. The attributions being based on often old works, a coin unknown at the time will often have difficulty in being attributed, unless it is possible to read the mint or find the name of the mint and compare with its production in the workshops where he minted coins....

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