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E-auction 243-166317 - bmv_423589 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Bronze à la croix ancrée

UNSPECIFIED MINT Bronze à la croix ancrée VF/VF
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Estimate : 180 €
Price : 61 €
Maximum bid : 72 €
End of the sale : 11 December 2017 15:05:30
bidders : 9 bidders
Type : Bronze à la croix ancrée
Date: VII-VIIIe siècles
Mint name / Town : Indéterminé
Metal : copper
Diameter : 10,5 mm
Weight : 0,76 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bronze sur un flan quadrangulaire, avec des types assez confus à cause d’une épaisse patine
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : LÉGENDE INDÉTERMINÉE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à droite entre deux croisettes (?).

Reverse


Reverse legend : LÉGENDE INDÉTERMINÉE.
Reverse description : Croix ancrée sous une croisette.

Commentary


Ce type de monnaies en bronze est rare et mal connu. Certains y voient un monnayage de bronze alors que d’autres préfèrent y voir les vestiges de faux triens.
Les légendes illisibles sur cet exemplaire ne permettent pas de proposer une attribution.

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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