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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8103076, member: 84905&quot;]Here is the link to an article on the 37 Merovingian tremisses from the Sutton Hoo ship burial:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7773ab236ab442c5a4d6f3898a63655f" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7773ab236ab442c5a4d6f3898a63655f" rel="nofollow">The Merovingian Coins (arcgis.com)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The article has a map which shows the geographical distribution of the mints from where the 37 coins came. Unsurprisingly, the bulk of the coins were minted in what is now France, i.e. the western part of the Merovingian kingdom (Neustria). Only four coins come from modern Belgium, 3 from modern Germany and 1 from what is now Switzerland, which would have counted as Burgundy in the 7th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of the coins came from The Netherlands, despite the proximity to the Sutton Hoo location. This underlines the great rarity of Merovingian coins from the eastern regions of the Merovingian kingdom (Austrasia). While Merovingian gold coins are very rare in general, coins from Neustria are relatively much more common than coins from Austrasia, which is, why the two tremisses I showed above are so exceptional.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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