bmv_862062 - UNSPECIFIED MINT Triens, Leoboleno monétaire
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Type : Triens, Leoboleno monétaire
Date: (VIIe siècle)
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : gold
Diameter : 11,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,10 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Ce triens est frappé sur un flan légèrement voilé suite à un choc à 6 heures au droit. Reliefs assez nets
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection Philippe Schiesser
Obverse
Obverse legend : VVIEDONICO.
Obverse description : Buste stylisé à gauche avec un T.
Reverse
Reverse legend : T LEOBOLENO.
Reverse description : Croix.
Commentary
Ce triens est très proche de l’exemplaire de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Prou, n° 2664). Il n’est pas attribué à un atelier précis.
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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