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bmv_365585 - MEROVINGIAN COINAGE - BANASSAC (BANNACIACO) - Lozere Triens à la croisette et au chrisme

MEROVINGIAN COINAGE - BANASSAC (BANNACIACO) - Lozere Triens à la croisette et au chrisme AU
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Price : 1 800.00 €
Type : Triens à la croisette et au chrisme
Date: c. 620-640
Mint name / Town : Banassac (48)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,22 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire avec des types bien centrés et de frappe vigoureuse, sur un flan de mauvais aloi avec une patine gris brun
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Florange ; il a été acquis en août 1941

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbare diadémée, à droite ; diadème et cou perlés ; une croisette et une sorte de chrisme devant le visage, un globule entre parenthèses sous le cou.

Reverse


Reverse legend : GAVALETANO // BAH.
Reverse description : Calice à deux anses, posé sur une ligne d’exergue perlée.

Commentary


Les triens de cette série sont relativement abondants ce qui a permis d'en réaliser une étude précise, avec des différenciations parfois subjectives. Cet exemplaire avec la croisette et le chrisme correspond à la variante 24 du Moneta qui en recense onze exemplaires.

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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