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Tremissis anonymous Banassac mint
| Issuer | Frankish Kingdom |
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| Year | 620-640 |
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| Weight | 1.25 g |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting a chalice or kantharos with two loop-shaped handles, surmounted by a cross, the whole rendered in a bold, increasingly abstract style typical of Merovingian tremisses from the Banassac mint. The mint legend surrounds the central motif, disposed around the field within a toothed border. The lettering is in retrograde and partially barbarized Latin, reading PΛNNIΛCIACO FIIT, a corruption of the place-name Pannaciaco (Banassac) combined with the word FIIT (fecit or fit), indicating the place of manufacture. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Banassac mint, operating in what is now the Lozère department of southern France, was one of several semi-autonomous Merovingian monetary workshops where the moneyer's name was eventually dropped from the coin entirely — a practice that distinguishes the anonymous issues from the far more common signed tremisses. The reasons behind anonymity at specific mints remain contested, with some scholars attributing it to workshop disruption during the fractious political transitions between Merovingian sub-kingdoms in the second quarter of the seventh century.
MEC I #424 places this type within a loose chronological bracket that overlaps the reigns of Chlotar II and Dagobert I.