v11_0586 - MARSEILLE - MASSILIA - CHILDERIC II Triens

MARSEILLE - MASSILIA - CHILDERIC II Triens XF

MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 1 448.00 €
Estimate : 2 287.00 €
Realised price : 2 455.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 3 964.00 €

Type : Triens

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Marseille

Metal : gold

Diameter : 15,5 mm

Orientation dies : 10 h.

Weight : 0,84 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce triens est frappé sur un flan court, probalement rogné, irrégulier et légèrement voilé. Les reliefs sont nets au niveau du buste

Catalogue references :

P.- - B.cf. 2547 var. p. 259 - MEC.1/- - Stahl/B.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : [CHILDER] - ICTS RX.

Obverse description : Buste diadémée à droite ; devant un globe crucigère.

Obverse translation : (Childéric, roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + CIVI[TAS] MASILIE.

Reverse description : Croix sur un globe cantonnée des lettres M et A ; à gauche quatre points, à droite deux points.

Reverse translation : (Cité de Marseille).

Historical background

MARSEILLE - MASSILIA - CHILDERIC II

(662-675)

Childeric was born around 653. He is the son of Clovis II and the Frankish slave Bathilde. He married in 667 Blitilde, daughter of Princess Himnechilde. The lords of Neustria turned to Childeric to overthrow the mayor of the Ébroïn palace; the latter was locked up in the monastery of Luxeuil while the king of Neustria Thierry III was imprisoned in Saint-Denis. Childeric II abolishes the minting of gold in Gaul in favor of silver coinage. He was assassinated in October/December 675, during a hunting party in the forest of Bondy.

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