bmv_1047981 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Denier
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Price : 440.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: Début VIIIe siècle
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 0,94 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et assez large. Patine grise. Léger décentrage au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection Philippe Schiesser
Obverse
Obverse legend : I II [...].
Obverse description : Grand A sous une croix ; au-dessous une croix cantonnée de deux globules.
Reverse
Reverse legend : + OSNOEL.
Reverse description : Croix.
Commentary
Monnaie semblant absente de tous les ouvrages de référence consultés et sans attribution précise en dépit de légendes bien lisibles au revers.
Coin seemingly absent from all consulted reference works and without precise attribution despite clearly legible legends on the reverse
Coin seemingly absent from all consulted reference works and without precise attribution despite clearly legible legends on the reverse
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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