Interesting Merovingian Triens from Oise region froim CGBfr. unsold lot

[panzerman]

Regnum Francorum/ Neustria

Dagobertus I King of Neustria

AV Triens ND

1.13g.   13g.    9h     .735

Senlis ( Silvanectis) Mint

Diademed Head R

BETTON  MO

Croix Ancrée/ Globe

SILVANECTIS

MES.1/    Belfort 4141

 

Please add your Merovingian coins

 

[Croatian Coin Collector]

Several of them didn't sell at the auction for some reason.

[panzerman]

Always good to check the "unsolds"! I got some excellent wins with CGBfr auctions.☺️

 

However these go really high at Künker events. Merovingian gold Triens are rare/ regal ones super rare.

[ominus1]

[panzerman]

2 hours ago, ominus1 said:

You know.....moneyers got away with murder in Merovingian France. The portraits are comical/ same as in Visigothic Hispania😗 Seems Dagobertus I had a wild hairdo. Wonder how much "moneyers" were paid for such crappy work.

[Croatian Coin Collector]

5 hours ago, panzerman said:

You know.....moneyers got away with murder in Merovingian France. The portraits are comical/ same as in Visigothic Hispania😗 Seems Dagobertus I had a wild hairdo. Wonder how much "moneyers" were paid for such crappy work.

Are you sure that the "wild hairdo" isn't actually a crown?

[panzerman]

They say diademed/ so likely is his hairdo. Remember back in 600s the hair styles were unruly / like hippies in 1960s. But this is what he looked like/ more like "hippie"

Portrait hairdo looks like he just got electrocuted in the chair.

 

[panzerman]

Dagobertus I 

[Nap]

Bettone is a moneyer, and the other side is the mint.  Why would this be called a regal issue?  And why Dagobert?  I would just say it's part of the National series.

[panzerman]

3 hours ago, Nap said:

Bettone is a moneyer, and the other side is the mint.  Why would this be called a regal issue?  And why Dagobert?  I would just say it's part of the National series.

Dagobert I was King of Nuestria at the time. So would portrait not be the King? The "Moneyer" was not important to have his bust on coin...

[Nap]

44 minutes ago, panzerman said:

Dagobert I was King of Nuestria at the time. So would portrait not be the King? The "Moneyer" was not important to have his bust on coin...

I don’t disagree that the face is not the moneyer’s however because it is very challenging to date these coins, it is speculative to assign them to any particular monarch.

[Finn235]

It's fun to see how similar the portrait on your coun is to this one, which is "just" a barbarous AE4