bmv_287538 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Bronze à la croix, tête à droite
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Bronze à la croix, tête à droite
Date: VII-VIIIe siècles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 0,81 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan régulier, mais un petit peu court. Avers de frappe molle, mais beau revers assez net. Patine brune et poreuse
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à droite ; légende autour.
Reverse
Reverse legend : + (...) VOMOSO (...).
Reverse description : Croix latine posée sur un degré, dans un grènetis intérieur ; légende autour.
Commentary
Ce type de monnaies en bronze est rare et mal connu. Certains y voient un monnayage de bronze alors que d’autres préfèrent y voir les vestiges de faux triens.
Les légendes lisibles sur cet exemplaire ne permettent pas de proposer une attribution.
This type of bronze coin is rare and poorly understood. Some see it as a bronze coinage, while others prefer to see it as the remains of false trienes. The legible legends on this example do not allow an attribution to be proposed.
Les légendes lisibles sur cet exemplaire ne permettent pas de proposer une attribution.
This type of bronze coin is rare and poorly understood. Some see it as a bronze coinage, while others prefer to see it as the remains of false trienes. The legible legends on this example do not allow an attribution to be proposed.
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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