Is this coin really what it is claimed to be? Help with ID.

This coin is being described as Merovingian but I haven't found anything similar while searching online, so now I'm hoping you all can help me out here with this coin if it really is Merovingian or not, thanks.


1.5 grams, 11 mm wide

 

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???? Sorry VK

 

Hi Jango ... sorry dude, but unfortunately I have zero-skilz in this era .......

=> oh, but at least your thread prodded me into looking up the time-period associated with your cool coin (thanks for making me go look-up something!! ... yop, "dog-poop" has dominated my weekend, so this was a refreshing break ... thanks mang!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian_dynasty

 

Merovingian bronzes are exceedingly rare. I haven't seen many, but the ones I have look very different from this piece. Do you have it in hand yet?

 

I havent bought it yet, so its not in hand.

 

It kinda looks like #35 on the page of Merovingian coins posted here:

http://andrewgough.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2415&start=50

 

Thanks windchild. If only it was a 100% match though... I still see some differences between this one and #35 in the link.

Anyone have anymore ideas?

 

Look up Sigebert III..

Possible ruler (very similar to gold pieces)

 

If you guys know little - then I know less. Sorry. Good luck with the coin.

I would like to learn as much as I can about these coins. I have never knowingly seen one for sale.

 

Namely that 35 is a gold tremissis and yours appears to be bronze! Particular designs were widely used in Merovingian coinage, and a type match could only nail it down to a very broad region or time period.

And a FYI for all, most Merovingian pieces were not struck in the name of the monarch. It rather clearly demonstrates how loosely consolidated their kingdom was!. The coins do routinely bear the name of the village or moneyer, though.

 

Yes, that, and their bad habit of many German tribes of always splitting up the empire amongst sons when a king died pretty much doomed their kingdom. Every time a king died you would have a couple of decades of bloody civil war until only once king had once again reunited the kingdom, just in time for him to die and start it all over again.

 

merowhatian? no idea, but thanks for the good ol wikipedia link stevex.

whatever that thing is, it is interesting.

 

Id feel more confident if I was able to find even a very similar match. Since this coin cant be determined for sure if its Merovingian or not, that fact would always nag me if I had this coin in my collection, so I wont be going for it. Would rather pay more for one that I know what it is, than buy a mysterious coin being labeled as something, and with which I have doubts about.

 

Thanks everyone for the help/comments.