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Merovingian. Anonymous fourrée(?) Denier ND (c. AD 620-750) Good XF (light porosity), MEC I-Unl., Rob-Unl., Prou-Unl, Dep-Unl. 11mm. 1.20gm. ILLIDVN, draped bust left / +bERTEFREð (final E retrograde), cross ancrée with pendilia. An intriguing unpublished denier issue, well-manufactured for the series on a characteristically compact and slightly porous flan. While CNG proposed in their sale of the piece (Electronic Auction #432, 14 November 2018, lot 401) that it may well be a fourrée tremissis or gilt denier, no traces of gilding appear to the present cataloger, just an attractive sheen of golden-amber tone. It seems more likely an unrecorded emission, possibly private, from the denier phase of Merovingian coinage from which such issues are numerous, or an imitation of the Paris style, which followed similar patterns.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 400-600 USD
Merovingian. Anonymous fourrée(?) Denier ND (c. AD 620-750) Good XF (light porosity), MEC I-Unl., Rob-Unl., Prou-Unl, Dep-Unl. 11mm. 1.20gm. ILLIDVN, draped bust left / +bERTEFREð (final E retrograde), cross ancrée with pendilia. An intriguing unpublished denier issue, well-manufactured for the series on a characteristically compact and slightly porous flan. While CNG proposed in their sale of the piece (Electronic Auction #432, 14 November 2018, lot 401) that it may well be a fourrée tremissis or gilt denier, no traces of gilding appear to the present cataloger, just an attractive sheen of golden-amber tone. It seems more likely an unrecorded emission, possibly private, from the denier phase of Merovingian coinage from which such issues are numerous, or an imitation of the Paris style, which followed similar patterns.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 400-600 USD