bmv_723092 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Denier
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Price : 500.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: Début VIIIe siècle
Date: Début VIIIe siècle
Mint name / Town : atelier indéterminé
Metal : silver
Diameter : 11 mm
Weight : 0,99 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est très bien frappé et présente de hauts reliefs. Léger décentrage au revers. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [...]S.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Croix dont les bras sont terminés par des C, cantonnée de quatre besants.
Commentary
En l’absence de légende il est difficile d’attribuer à un lieu particulier ce type de denier.
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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