Live auction - bmv_1018426 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Triens
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Live starting : Type : Triens
Date: c. 600-675
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : gold
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce triens est frappé sur un flan irrégulier. Coup sur la croix ancrée et rayure sur les deux lettres supérieures du revers. Le revers a été frappé avec un coin rouillé
Obverse
Obverse legend : VUNTOA[...].
Obverse description : Tête à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [...]BUO[...].
Reverse description : Croix ancrée à traverse cantonnée de quatre globules.
Commentary
Ces triens avec une croix ancrée sont souvent classés à la région parisienne, mais les types parisiens ont souvent été repris dans d’autres ateliers.
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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