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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8101743, member: 84905&quot;]Here is another interesting Tremissis or Triens of the Merovingian period. The coin is special in several respect. Indeed, I received an offer from a Dutch museum to purchase the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was minted at Maastricht in The Netherlands. The city’s Latin name Traiectum indicates its important location at a passage (traiectum) over the river Maas.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maastricht may even have been home to a royal palace, as some of the coins of the monneyer Godofredus have the city name TRIECTO followed by PA for Palatium.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Merovingian mint of Maastricht boasted a series of at least ten monneyers, including Godofredus, Ansoaldus, the well known Madelinus and Thrasemundus, who made the coin at hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv.: (T)RI ECTOFI(T), i.e.&nbsp; TRIECTO FIT, for Traiectum fitur, meaning ‘produced at Maastricht’.</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; THRASEMVNDVS.</p><p>Weight: 1.3g (13mm)</p><p>Thrasemundus worked in the early decades of the 7th century.</p><p>Found: England (Lincolnshire - productive site)</p><p><br /></p><p>What is interesting is that the coin shows a helmeted bust (copied from a Roman coin), which is highly unusual for Merovingian coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>More on this coin can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36582523/A_Rare_Coin_of_Thrasemundus_of_Maastricht" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/36582523/A_Rare_Coin_of_Thrasemundus_of_Maastricht" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/36582523/A_Rare_Coin_of_Thrasemundus_of_Maastricht</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1408808[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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