Live auction - bmv_949513 - LEMOVECAS - LIMOGES (Haute-Vienne) Denier
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| Estimate : | 1 600 € |
| Price : | 1 900 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 300 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 September 2024 15:52:01 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: (VIIe-VIIIe siècles)
Date: s.d.
Mint name / Town : Limoges (87)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,32 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan légèrement irrégulier et est recouvert d’une patine grise
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection Philippe Schiesser
Obverse
Obverse description : Croix cantonnée des lettres L, E, M et O.
Obverse translation : (Limoges).
Reverse
Reverse description : Monogramme sommé d’une croix, composé notamment des lettres CLME ; au-dessous deux points.
Commentary
Monnaie attribuée à Limoges en raison des lettres LEMO (pour Limoges) et absente des ouvrages consultés. Un autre exemplaire a toutefois été publié par Marc Parvérie, “Les deniers mérovingiens de Limoges”, BSNL XXVII, février 2020, p. 5-16. Une telle croix cantonnée de ces quatre lettres se retrouve aussi sur des triens d’Uzerche.
Historical background
LEMOVECAS - LIMOGES (Haute-Vienne)
(7th-8th centuries)
Capital of the Lémovices, the city is at the crossroads of the "via Agrippa" linking Lugdunum (Lyon) to Mediolanum Santonum (Saintes) and the "via Avaricum Tolosa" linking Toulouse to Bourges. From the 3rd century to the end of the 4th century, Augustoritum was gradually abandoned following the troubles and insecurity caused by the Germanic invasions. At the beginning of the 6th century, Augustoritum became Limoges and a second urban center (the future castellum Sanctis-Martialis) emerged around a nearby necropolis, to the northwest, which preserved the tomb of Martial, the first bishop. The Franks take the city. They reinvest it in a brutal way, at the beginning of the 8th century, once the Muslim invasion stopped in Poitiers by Charles Martel. The appointment of the goldsmith Eligius (future Saint Éloi), a local notable, as a close collaborator of the Merovingian king Dagobert, softened the Frankish domination. Source: Wikipedia.org.
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