Tremissis - Moneyer Abolinus Dinant

Merovingian tremisses of this period were struck not by a royal mint under centralized control, but by itinerant or locally established moneyers who operated with considerable autonomy — the moneyer's name often carrying more authority on the coin than any royal attribution. Abolinus at Dinant (on the Meuse, in what is now southern Belgium) worked within a monetary system where Austrasia's Frankish rulers had largely inherited late Roman gold-weight conventions without the administrative infrastructure to enforce them.

Dinant was a significant river-trade point, which explains why a moneyer operated there at all.