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Live auction - bmv_346327 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Triens à la tête de face

UNSPECIFIED MINT Triens à la tête de face VF
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Estimate : 3 000 €
Price : 1 800 €
Maximum bid : 2 777 €
End of the sale : 27 September 2016 15:49:06
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Triens à la tête de face
Date: (VIIe siècle)
Mint name / Town : 36 - Déols
Metal : gold
Diameter : 8,5 mm
Weight : 1,27 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Triens sur un tout petit flan court et particulièrement épais, avec un droit à peu près bien centré mais un revers décentré
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : DOLVS VICO.
Obverse description : Tête de face ; légende autour.

Reverse


Reverse legend : + O FIT(LIGATURÉS) FOLEN (...).
Reverse description : Monogramme composé d’un E rétrograde et d’un B.

Commentary


Les triens à la tête de face sont assez rares ; le style de cet exemplaire se rapproche de Paris, pour le monétaire ARNOALDVS, mais qui sont systématiquement associés à une croix ancrée. D’autres monnaies à la tête de face sont recensés pour divers ateliers, mais ce revers si particulier semble sans équivalent.
La légende de droit permettrait de proposer une attribution à Déols.
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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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