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Record ID: IOW-0A7327
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Merovingian gold tremissis, minted at Nantes (c. AD 560-c. 585 AD). MEC 460; Belfort 3094; Depeyrot type 3-2E.
A Merovingian coin imitating Visigothic (which itself imitates Byzantine in a very devolved way).
Obverse: left-facing bust, inscription possibly reading NAM
Reverse: Victory advancing left; IVIO / N
References:
MEC: P. Grierson and M. Blackburn (1986), Medieval European Coinage 1: the early middle ages (Cambridge), see pl. 22 (no. 460); Depeyrot, G 'Le Numeraire Merovngien L'age de L'or (Moneta).
Created on: Sunday 1st January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
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