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Description: | This coin is a pseudo-Imperial tremissis of the late 6th or very early 7th century, probably of Frankish manufacture. The inscription is too badly blundered to indicate which Byzantine emperor was being imitated, and both the obverse and reverse types are commonly found on both Byzantine and Frankish coins.Obv. Diademed bust, r., _N___VICAPPAUGRev. Cross on steps, ___VATAUGUS___Weight: 1.18g Die axis: 135Diameter: 11.73mmThis coin was found in close proximity to another gold tremisses (2012 T248; ESS-84D6A3) 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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