Record ID: SWYOR-1FB037
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a silver coin of Early Medieval date, and Merovingian. The coin is laminating or may be a copper alloy core with a silver surface. The design of one face is illegible except for the letters: "[-]EC" in the legend. The other face has a central cross on a step and the three visible letters of the legend are: "(L) V (r)". This is probably a silver copy of a gold tremissis from Dorestad by the moneyer Madelinus. The later ones get quite blundered, which probably explains the odd legends on this example.
Created on: Thursday 15th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 31st March 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-236F00
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold Early Medieval coin; probably a Merovingian tremissis dating from the 6th or 7th century, 500-700 AD. It has a diameter of 10.92mm, thickness 1.40mm, weight 1.11g. The design seems too large for the flan, so possibly it was copied from a larger coin of c.20mm diameter. There is a border defined by solid lines on one face, containing curved line, straight lines and pellets. The central motif is an unintelligible group of curved lines and pellets. The other face is weakly struck and possibly bears a crude bust and blundered legend.
Created on: Friday 11th June 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-5528F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
"Report on a case of possible Treasure from Ainderby Steeple, North Yorkshire (2009 T717) This report concerns what appears to be a tremissis or pseudo-tremissis of the 7th century. The tremissis is a coin type widely issued by the Merovingian Franks in this period, but also produced by the Anglo-Saxons and Frisians. Such coins were produced in fairly good gold at the beginning of the century, but with the gold contained declining as the century progressed, with the gold increasingly replaced by silver. From its appearance, this one probably dates from somewhere fairly early in the ce…
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ainderby Steeple', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-B502C5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval gold coin; a 7th-century tremissis that was minted at Dorestad in the Netherlands by Rimoaldus in c.600 - 675 AD. The coin has a diameter of 12.7mm and is 1.3mm thick. It weighs 1.3g. For references see Grierson and Blackburn's 'Medieval European Coinage' (vol 1) p.137; and A.N. Zadoks-Josephus Jitta (1961) 'De Eerste Muntslag te Duurstede', Jaarboek voor Munt-en Penningkunde 48, 1-14 (Plate 1, no. 3). This coin is probably the first of this type to have been found in England.
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 12th September 2018
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