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bmv_336604 - MEROVINGIAN COINAGE - BANASSAC (BANNACIACO) - Lozere Triens

MEROVINGIAN COINAGE - BANASSAC (BANNACIACO) - Lozere Triens AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 2 200.00 €
Type : Triens
Date: c. 620-640
Mint name / Town : 48 - Banassac
Metal : gold
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 1,24 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très agréable monnaie frappée sur un flan court, avec un droit décentré et un revers à peu près centré mais sur un flan trop court. Agréable patine sur un métal de qualité
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbare diadémée, à droite ; diadème et cou perlés.

Reverse


Reverse legend : GA[VALETAN]O // CIIA.
Reverse description : Calice à deux anses, posé sur une ligne d’exergue perlée ; des globules de part et d’autre.

Commentary


Cet exemplaire semble appartenir au type attribué à SIGEBERT, mais son centrage ne permet pas de préciser les motifs qui ornent l’avant du visage. Au revers la légende GAVALETANO semble pouvoir être restituée, mais l’exergue est plus inhabituel. Nous avons normalement les lettres BAN ou FIIT (à l’envers) à l’exergue alors que ce triens présente tout autre chose ; CIIA (?).
Aucune des monnaies reproduite dans le Belfort ne semble y correspondre.

Historical background


MEROVINGIAN COINAGE - BANASSAC (BANNACIACO) - Lozere

(7th century)

During the first three centuries of our era Banassac, known as Banaciacum, was the second city of Gévaudan after Javols (Gabalum). It extends over the current location of the village, along the banks of the Urugne to the shoe of Malepeyre. Its prosperity is due to the manufacture of sigillated pottery. The pottery workshops were located on the banks of the Urugne. Their establishment is facilitated by the presence on site of good quality clay, the proximity of a river, firewood for the ovens and the vicinity of a communication axis linking Millau to Javols. Banassac was famous again in the Middle Ages thanks to its mints, which made it one of the most active centers in Gévaudan in the 6th and 7th centuries. It was the city where the greatest number of gold coins, sous and triens were minted; some minted with the effigies of Childebert II or Charibert II kings of Aquitaine and Austrasia. According to some, the tenth of the preserved Merovingian gold coins was made in Banassac. Banassac's recurring motif is a vase, perhaps a remnant of a pottery tradition....

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