Merovingian Francia, Marseille [?] (675-750), National Series, Imported Silver, Denier, blundered monogram within vestigial beaded border, vestigial beaded border, rev. central cross pattée with blundered legend within vestigial linear border, 0.78g (SCBI 69, 1098 this coin; Beowulf 47 this coin; cf. Depeyrot, Denier, pp. 155, no. 15; SiEMC1), a small flan split to edge, otherwise of bright silver, a pleasing geometric design good very fine and well-centred, rare.
provenance
Beowulf, CNG 75, 23 May 2007, lot 1386
M Vosper, November 2007
[Recorded in Bonser Archive, 1762/270, December 1994]
~ Found by D Wilson in South Lincolnshire ~
Estimate: £300 - £400