Tremissis - Moneyer Eligius - Clovis II Paris mint

Eligius of Noyon — goldsmith, bishop, and eventual saint — served as master of the royal mint under the Merovingian court before his ordination in 641, the year this issue's production window closes. His reputation as a craftsman was exceptional enough that Dagobert I had employed him to produce elaborate reliquaries and throne furnishings before trusting him with coinage. The Paris mint under his supervision is among the better-documented Merovingian operations precisely because of his unusual biographical record.

The "var." citations against both Belfort and Prou signal a die combination or spelling variant not fully catalogued — unsurprising given the decentralized nature of Merovingian minting, where individual moneyers exercised considerable autonomy over execution.