File:Saxon Coin 24a.jpg
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[edit]English: Saxon Coins
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English: Saxon Coins |
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English: An early 7th-century gold tremissis minted in Merovingian France or Friesland by an otherwise unknown moneyer or petty king named Audulf,¹² misrepresented as one of the "Saxon" coins decorating the margins of Moll's map of Huntingdonshire, sold separately and as Map 24 in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales..., miscopied from Figure 20 of Tabula I Nummi Saxonici on Page 135 of Obadiah Walker's "Notes on the Saxon Coins" appended to Edmund Gibson's English edition of William Camden's Britannica, itself miscopied from a marginal illustration on page 310 of John Speed's History of Great Britaine... Speed misunderstood the coin as having been issued by the East Anglian king Ealdwulf of East Anglia. A 1606 note on the English coin by Fabri de Peiresc makes it clear that Speed's garbled inscription and misrepresentation of the coin as silver were mistakes and not the result of a coin type distinct from the 3 other surviving examples of this issue.¹ Whether Frankish or Frisian, the coin is a late example of the tremissis originally intended to represent ⅓ solidus. The tremissis is also described as a triens &c. in Frankish contexts and a thrymsa &c. in Anglo-Saxon English contexts. As such, this coin type is now usually described as an "Audulfus Frisia Triens".¹ Griegson notes this particular coin is AV 13 mm 1.34 g with a diademed bust facing right obverse and a cross potent on a triangular base and step reverse. The actual coin has an upper-case alpha (Α) under the cross's left arm and a lower-case omega (ω) under the cross's left arm, both connected upwards to create the appearance of a scale. Speed's engraving mistook these for a single vine, copied by subsequent printers and scholars until it was sometimes further mistaken for a snake. Speed's engraving turned the actual coin's 6-pointed star into a 5-pointed one; Walker and subsequent printings omitted it.
Français : Sujet : Monnaies
Divisions politiques et administratives Huntingdon, Comté de Échelle(s) : 9 English Miles [= 6,8 cm] Référence bibliographique : 173 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : AnvilEur Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : MAEDI008 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : MAEDIGen0 Couverture : Royaume-Uni – Angleterre – Cambridgeshire Langue : anglais Éditeur : [T. Bowles] (London) |
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height: 23.5 cm (9.2 in); width: 34.5 cm (13.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,23,5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,34,5U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q193563 |
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Français : Notice de recueil : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40577015h
Appartient à : Collection d'Anville ; 02264 Notice du catalogue : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41292645x Extrait de A New Description of England and Wales, With the Adjacent Islands, 1724. |
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Français : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE DD-2987 (2264)
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Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
AVDVLF+VSPRISIN [intending AVDVLFVS FRISIA, Audulf King in Frisia or Minted by Audulf the Frisian]
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