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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8095696, member: 84744&quot;]Bringing this thread down from the stratosphere (Wow to all these coins! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) here is a late 7th century fourrée of a Merovingian tremissis.&nbsp; It appears to be based on coins of the moneyer Marcovaldo, known from the Amboise mint near Tours in southern Neustria.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1407305[/ATTACH] </p><p>It&#039;s the worst portrait in my collection! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; (It&#039;s also a published coin, in Monnaies de Sites et Trésors de L&#039;Antiquité aux Temps Modernes, vol. II by Jean-Marc Doyen and Jean-Patrick Duchemin, European Centre for Numismatic Studies 2018, p. 197.)&nbsp; Not in any other reference books.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is an early 8th century Merovingian denier minted in St. Denis/Catullacum:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1407308[/ATTACH] </p><p>The BnF has another example, and there are later issues copying this coin in much poorer style.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find the Merovingian coinage particularly fascinating!&nbsp; Too bad it&#039;s typically so expensive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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