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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 10

Merovingia Francia, National Series (c. 600-675), AV Tremissis, 'Siggelino', diademed and draped bust right, uncertain legend surrounds, rev. SIGGELINO [...], cross on steps, L-I across fields, 1.20g. 270° (SCBI 1080 this coin; cf. Belfort 1051-6; Prou 2128; Williams, BNJ 2010, 68/153 ('Burdigalis') this coin), trace double-struck on a short flan, otherwise very fine or near so

provenance
N Mills, January 2007
~ Reportedly found in Kent ~
[EMC 2008.0033 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 63]


Unfortunately the obverse legend is obscured confounding our reading of the mint name for a moneyer 'Siggelino' that occurs in different spellings at various locations. None of these present parallels can be linked stylistically or typologically, nor can the letters flanking the cross (L-I), usually indicative of a mint or region, be attributed with certainty. However, both Williams and Allen have tentatively linked this to an emission of Burdigalis (Bordeaux), and transcribe the moneyer's name as 'Seggelinus'.

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Sold for
£850

Starting price
£800