bmv_881533 - POITOU - METALUS VICUS - MELLE (Deux-Sevres) Obole à l’M croisetée
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Type : Obole à l’M croisetée
Date: (VIIe-VIIIe siècles)
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Melle
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9,5 mm
Weight : 0,40 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cette obole est frappée sur un flan court et irrégulier si bien qu’une partie des légendes est hors flan. Monnaie recouverte d’une patine grise
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection Philippe Schiesser
Obverse
Obverse legend : [...]-VCO.
Obverse description : M croisetée.
Reverse
Reverse description : Lisse.
Commentary
Obole particulièrement rare.
Particularly rare Obol
Particularly rare Obol
Historical background
POITOU - METALUS VICUS - MELLE (Deux-Sevres)
(late 7th - 8th centuries)
The Melle workshop, in the south-east of Deux-Sèvres, was important in the Carolingian period and seems to have been in operation from the Merovingian period. The silver-lead mines are still accessible and can be visited by a wide public.
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