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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 3330943, member: 74712&quot;]I think the problem of dating your coin to 1000-1200AD is that we don’t have evidence of gold being in use as coins in Western Europe (none that I am aware of anyway - aside from areas of Islamic influence such as Spain and Southern Italy).&nbsp; there is certainly the concept, as I recall an entry in one of the Pipe rolls of Henry II (although it may have been Richard I or John - this is an old memory) mentioning paying with a gold shilling.&nbsp; Shillings were just an accounting term at that time, so supposedly the fee was paid with some type of gold, but no evidence that it was coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You said you brought your coin to Pol who said it was a Tremissis - why would you doubt him?&nbsp; Again, I have no experience with these coins, but they are generally a mystery.&nbsp; So why do you think 1000-1200?</p><p>While the design looks like geometric shapes, it doesn’t share the same characteristics as the Norman types (the arrows are strange - the pellet in the square could work, but the Norman coins have pellets inside triangles), and the Norman coins were so terribly debased that I doubt they would bother minting something in gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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