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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 8337361, member: 84905"]Sorry if I'm nit-picking, but (1) there was no such thing as "French Merovingians". The Merovingians were Francs, i.e. an ethnically Germanic elite that ruled the Romanic population of Gaul. "French" in a linguistic/ethnic sense only emerged in the 10th century. (2) Merovingian gold is more common than Anglo-Saxon and Frisian gold, but overall Merovingian gold coins are very rare and gold was much scarcer in Merovingian Gaul compared to Roman Gaul. (3) the Merovingian monetary system was not based on gold while the Anglo-Saxon/Frisian systems were based on silver. Merovingian gold disappeared around the end of the 7th century, at the same time as Anglo-Saxon and Frisian gold disappeared when silver deniers and sceattas took over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 8337361, member: 84905"]Sorry if I'm nit-picking, but (1) there was no such thing as "French Merovingians". The Merovingians were Francs, i.e. an ethnically Germanic elite that ruled the Romanic population of Gaul. "French" in a linguistic/ethnic sense only emerged in the 10th century. (2) Merovingian gold is more common than Anglo-Saxon and Frisian gold, but overall Merovingian gold coins are very rare and gold was much scarcer in Merovingian Gaul compared to Roman Gaul. (3) the Merovingian monetary system was not based on gold while the Anglo-Saxon/Frisian systems were based on silver. Merovingian gold disappeared around the end of the 7th century, at the same time as Anglo-Saxon and Frisian gold disappeared when silver deniers and sceattas took over.[/QUOTE]
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