Tremissis - Moneyer Wintrius Chalon mint

Chalon-sur-Saône operated as one of the more active Merovingian minting centers in Burgundy, a region absorbed into the Frankish kingdom following the defeat of the Burgundian kings in 534. The moneyer system itself was a Merovingian peculiarity — individual craftsmen lending their names to royal coinage, making attribution more personal than institutional. Wintrius is attested at Chalon through this type alone, which is not unusual; many moneyers appear across a single issue or die pairing and then vanish from the record entirely.