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Tremissis - Moneyer Landegisilus Huy
| Issuer | Austrasia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 585-625 |
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| Reference(s) | Prou Mer#1200 , Delmonte G#21 , Belfort#1531 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold Latin cross with splayed arms stands erect upon a globus in the center of the field, flanked on each side by a pellet. To the right of the cross appears a reversed epsilon (Ↄ), a distinctive die-cutter's mark or letter variant commonly found on Merovingian tremisses. The moneyer's legend runs in a continuous circuit around the periphery of the flan, separated from the central device by a plain inner border. |
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Huy, on the Meuse in what is now Belgium, was one of the more active Merovingian minting sites during this period — a reflection of the town's position as a river crossing and regional economic node rather than any royal directive. Moneyers like Landegisilus operated with considerable autonomy; the name on the coin is his personal guarantee of weight and fineness, not a mint-master appointed from above. The Austrasian kingdom itself was contested territory through much of this window, cycling through regencies and coups following Sigibert I's assassination in 575.