British Coins and Tokens

Early Anglo-Saxon Period, MEROVINGIANS, Tremissis, Germany, Mainz region, uncertain mint, moneyer Charegaucius, vestigal diademed bust left, blundered legend, rev. cross on globule within inner circle, i i v [as mark of value] in first, second and fourth quarters, 1.18g/6h (MEC 1, 505, same obv. die [after recutting of inscription]; Prou 1165, same obv. die). Struck from worn dies, otherwise good fine, very rare, particularly so as an English find £700-£900

found near Gateshead, Northumberland, c. 1955

The present coin is very similar to the Lord Grantley specimen, now housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum (MEC 1, 505) and that in Paris as described by Prou. Aspects of the obverse legend, and the way the diadem interacts with the legend, suggests all three coins are struck from the same obverse die, albeit after several stages of re-cutting. Prou proposed a mint reading reading of enegavgiia on the specimen available to him, while Grierson read the obverse legend on the Fitzwilliam coin as oenegavgiia, in his view meaningless.