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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Theoderic, post: 8096979, member: 110471&quot;]Here is my only Merovingian coin.&nbsp; As others mentioned earlier, if they weren&#039;t so damn expensive I would love to have more.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1407445[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AV Tremissis (13 mm, 1.31 grams, 9h), Struck circa A.D. 570/580-670, Rouen, France mint, moneyer Aigoaldus</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: + ROTO[…] MO CIV, bust right</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: AIGOALDO M’O’ (D retrograde), small cross within wreath</p><p><b>References</b>: British Numismatic Journal 58 (1988), Coin Register No. 100 (this coin); Fitzwilliam Museum Corpus of Early Medieval Coins 1988.0100 (this coin); Coinage &amp; History of the North Sea World c. 500-1250, page 50-51 (this coin); cf. NM Type 21-1A, 11; cf. Belfort 3840; Prou 250; MEC 1 –</p><p><b>Provenance: </b>CNG 82 (September 16, 2009), Lot 1169; Stack’s (January 12, 2009), Lot 2383, Golden Horn collection; Künker 121 (March 12-13, 2007), Lot 160, G.W. De Wit collection; purchased from Spink, London, 1996; found at Knighton, Oxfordshire, England, circa 1986.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the EMC 1988.0100 reference David Metcalf comments that “the likelihood is that this coin came directly into Wessex across the Channel.”</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Coinage &amp; History of the North Sea World reference it was noted that this coin appears as duplicate entries in the EMC, 1988.0100 and 1989.9003, referring to the same coin.&nbsp; In the latter entry Metcalf describes the findspot as near Swindon, Wiltshire, but this is just over the county border from Knighton in Oxfordshire.</p><p><br /></p><p>I originally bid on this coin unsuccessfully in the Stack&#039;s auction of 2009 where its full history was mentioned.&nbsp; Then later that same year I saw it again at the CNG auction but surprisingly without any mention of its provenance.&nbsp; I jumped on it and got it below the estimate.&nbsp; The power of provenance![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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