Browse Items (15 total)

  • Collection: Money Matters, Thursday 3/11

BM Silver Mercia coin.jpg

BM gold mercia coin.jpg

BM imitative dinar.jpg

aelfwiiine.jpg

gold charlemagne solidus.jpg

nicephorus.jpg

visigothic coin.jpg
Gold coin. (whole)
Cross on four steps. (reverse)
Facing bust of Recesvinth with head right, draped. (obverse)

Obverse inscription: + RECCES|V|INΘVSP+
Reverse inscription: + ISPΛLIPIVS

gallo visigothic.jpg
Gold coin. (whole)
Victory standing left, holding long cross. (reverse)
Helmeted, diademed and cuirassed bust of Anastasius, facing and holding spear and shield. (obverse)

Obverse inscription: DN ΛNΛSTΛSIVS PF ΛVC
Reverse inscription: VICTORIΛ…

gallo-visigothic two.jpg
Gold coin. (whole)
Emperor staging right, holding long cross and Victory on globe and trampling Barbarian. (reverse)
Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Avitus, right. (obverse)

Obverse: DN AVITVS PER P F AVG
Reverse: VICTORIA…

necklace.jpg
Part of a necklace

The brooch and necklace were found in 1860 in a female burial. There are discrepancies as to the exact contents of the graves in the earliest published sources, but they included an iron weaving batten, a copper-alloy pin, a…
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