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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 8104443, member: 115171&quot;][USER=84905]@Tejas[/USER], always a pleasure to have the benefit of your thoughts.&nbsp; Your Merovingian solidus does share many features with my “VICTOBI” solidus.&nbsp; The unbarred “A” in the reverse field first made me think of Arles, but that city was under Visigothic control early in the reign of Anastasius.</p><p>The spiky hair brings to mind the epithet “the long-haired kings” which was applied to the Merovingian monarchs, as recorded by Gregory of Tours, I believe.&nbsp; The Reges criniti. </p><p>Instances of the unbarred “A” can be seen on Visigothic solidi of Valentinian III, the VICTOBI coin, and this bizarre coin of Focas (which the ANA said is from Constantinople, but I am very skeptical of this.)&nbsp; Also the imitative solidus, possibly Burgundian, below which you have seen previously.&nbsp; It seems to be an error which many illiterate celators have fallen into independently.[ATTACH=full]1409622[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1409623[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1409625[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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