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1/3 de sou d'or - Monétaire Mummolinus Troyes
| Issuer | Burgundy, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 620-640 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis (⅓) |
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| Obverse description | Schematized draped and diademed bust facing right in the debased Late Antique manner characteristic of Merovingian gold coinage. Facial features are rendered in a stylized, almost abstract fashion, with a prominent diadem across the forehead and drapery indicated by linear folds at the shoulder and chest. A beaded inner circle encloses the effigy. The abbreviated mint name TRICAS appears in the field, referencing Troyes (ancient Tricasses), lettered in the irregular Latin capitals typical of seventh-century Frankish moneyers. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mummolinus was among the monetarii operating under Merovingian authority in Troyes during the early seventh century — a period when the Frankish crown relied entirely on private moneyers, working from fixed locations, to produce royal coinage. These men were not mint employees in any modern sense; they were contractors, personally accountable for weight and fineness, who stamped their own names onto the coins as a guarantee. The Troyes workshop was active across several reigns, making exact attribution to a single political moment difficult.
The "var." notations across Belfort, Onofrio, and Metcalf indicate this piece diverges from recorded die combinations — not unusual for a series where no two surviving tremisses were struck from identical pairs.