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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1007

Merovingian Francia, Quentovic [?] (675-750), National Series, Imported Silver, Denier, wiry-haired and 'peg nose' bust left, chevron-A on shoulder breaking beaded border, blundered legend in margin, rev. AUNIV[?] around cross pattée, pellets in angles, the fourth quarter especially weak, 1.00g, 180° (SCBI 69, 1107 this coin; cf. Jean Elsen, Auction 144, lot 896 ~ "Uzerche"; Belfort - [cf. 4643]; Prou - [cf. 2772]) on an irregular flan, otherwise darkly toned, with a hint of lustre in reverse fields, very fine

provenance
T Owen, August 1998
~ Found by P Murawski, north of Winchester (Hants), 1998 ~
[BNJ Coin Register 1998, no. 35]:

"No useful parallels have been found in Belfort or Prou, and the coin for the present remains unidentified. Perhaps the moneyer is Acnius?"


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Sold for
£750

Starting price
£500