bmv_227959 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Petit bronze à la croix
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Price : 60.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 60.00 €
Type : Petit bronze à la croix
Date: V-VIIIe siècles
Mint name / Town : atelier indéterminé
Metal : copper
Diameter : 9,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 0,47 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Tout petit bronze avec les types encore identifiables, mais les légendes illisibles. Patine brune avec de petites concrétions vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE INDÉTERMINÉE.
Obverse description : Restes de buste diadémé à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE INDÉTERMINÉE.
Reverse description : Croix latine avec lé légende autour.
Commentary
Ce genre de monnaie n’appartient plus au monnayage romain mais plutôt à celui du très haut moyen-age.
This type of coin no longer belongs to Roman coinage but rather to that of the very early Middle Ages.
This type of coin no longer belongs to Roman coinage but rather to that of the very early Middle Ages.
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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