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Description: | This coin is a Merovingian tremissis of the mint-and moneyer type, of the period AD 580-670. The reverse inscription is illegible, but the obverse inscription shows that it was minted in, or possibly imitating, the town of Quentovic (Etaples, Pas-de-Calais). Quentovic was a major mint, and a major port, and finds from Quentovic are not unusual as finds in England, but the crude style makes it possible that this is a contemporary imitation minted elsewhere.Obv: Crude diademed bust, r., + VVICUS FITRev: Crude cross ancrée, illegible.Weight: 1.29g Die axis: 90Discussion:This coin was found in close proximity to another gold tremisses (2012 T249; ESS-8632F4) on two consecutive days; both of these coins are from a spot close to where other gold tremisses of comparable date have been found in 2010 and 2011. These previous finds have been declared Treasure (2010 T254; ESS-F0D125 and 2011 T202; ESS-32E115 respectively) and it is likely that the two 2012 finds represent additional material from the same dispersed hoard.The two coins are of types which one might expect to be associated with each other, as in finds such as the purse from the Sutton Hoo ship burial, or the Crondall hoard. They were also found in close proximity to the find spot of earlier finds of gold coins of comparable date. All five coins can plausibly be associated as a group. Although gold coins of this period are sometimes found as stray finds from so-called 'productive sites', such sites typically yield other finds of the same period, which to the best of my knowledge is not the case here. In the absence of such evidence, and given the likely association with previous coin finds from the same find spot, these coins appear to represent strays from a dispersed hoard.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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