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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 135

Merovingian, Auxerre, temp. Abbot Quintilian of St. Germain (c. 700-750), AR Denier, crude diademed bust right, almond-shaped eye, braided radiant hair, cross pommée before, hammer above, vestigial vertical row of pellet behind and before face, rev. triquetra with cross at point of each lobe, dividing letters A | IT | B, 1.04g (Abramson, 2012a, Fig 3; SCBI 69, 1095 this coin; cf. Prou 2884, plate XXXVI, "Attributions Incertaines" ~ Cimiez Hoard, Morel-Fatio 311; Lafaurie, 'Deniers abbatiaux mérovingiens d'Auxerre', Doussay, 'Saint-Denis et Wicus-Saint-Josse', BSFN no. 9, November 1997, pp. 181-184), of good fabric, very fine, extremely rare

provenance
J Philpotts, November 2010


Eric Vandenbossche (pers. comms., 21 August 2013) "This Denier is attributed to the Abbot Quintilian, of the Abbey of Saint-Germain of Auxerre toward 720 (see Belfort 582, very similar). This is the fourth known."

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£600