Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Early Anglo-Saxon Period, Merovingian, Tremissis, Frisia?, 610-625, ολοτη : sc[–] around bust right, rev. cross on step, flanked by l u, pellet below, all within pelleted inner circle, pseudo-legend around, 1.26g/5h (MEC 521; Belfort 2345/7). Struck from a worn obverse die and with a light scuff on reverse, otherwise very fine, residual bloom £800-£1,000

Provenance: Found near Basingstoke (Hampshire), 2021; EMC 2021.0252