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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4940845, member: 84744"]My understanding, off the top of my head: silver coinage basically went out of circulation in the west by the late 6th/early 7th century, but the term "denarius" survived as a unit of account. The standard Merovingian denomination was the gold tremissis, copied in Britain as the "thrymsa." When gold became scarcer, silver coinage was reintroduced, and there's evidence (according to Grierson) that the Merovingiens used the term "denarius" for it, borrowing directly from the word for the unit of account. Which of course became "denier" in French.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4940845, member: 84744"]My understanding, off the top of my head: silver coinage basically went out of circulation in the west by the late 6th/early 7th century, but the term "denarius" survived as a unit of account. The standard Merovingian denomination was the gold tremissis, copied in Britain as the "thrymsa." When gold became scarcer, silver coinage was reintroduced, and there's evidence (according to Grierson) that the Merovingiens used the term "denarius" for it, borrowing directly from the word for the unit of account. Which of course became "denier" in French.[/QUOTE]
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