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Description: | This record is a copy of an artefact that was originally reported by David Evans and Simon Holmes in 2006 and subsequently deleted. A contemporary gold-plated copper-cored copy of a Merovingian pseudo-imperial tremissis of the mid-6th century AD. The original Merovingian coins this copy is based on are known as the pseudo-imperial tremisses, and they are themselves modelled on imperial gold tremisses. In this case the coin is a copy of a coin modelled on a tremissis of Justinian I (527-565), but the Merovingians also used imperial tremisses of Anastasius I (491-518), Justin I (518-527) and Justin II (565-578) as models for their pseudo-imperial issues. Grierson & Blackburn record another contemporary plated copy of a pseusdo-imperial tremissis, although there is debate out whether it was ever intended for use as a coin or was instead a burial piece. Type: Grierson and Blackburn (1986) vol 1 pl. 18 Status: 3 (certain)
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