bmv_942200 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Triens fourré
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Price : 600.00 €
Type : Triens fourré
Date: (VIIe siècle)
Date: s.d.
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : gold
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,04 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce triens fourré est un faux d’époque frappé sur un flan légèrement irrégulier et voilé avec une partie de la dorure se détachant de l’âme argentée de la monnaie
Obverse
Obverse legend : [M]AOCONNO VI[V]A.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CHAEDVLFO MO.
Reverse description : Croix.
Commentary
Le nom du droit peut se rapprocher de celui de MEDECONNO VICO, nom de l’atelier de Mougon (Indre-et-Loire).
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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