Coins from the Frankish Kingdom

The Frankish kingdoms are the barbarian kingdoms that succeed one another or coexist in Western Europe on the ruins of the Western Roman Empire. After the conquests of Clovis in the 5th century, the kingdom of the Franks merges geographically with Gaul. The term "Frank" quickly lost its ethnic value to designate any free man subject to a Merovingian king, regardless of his origin. Royal or ecclesiastical coins of the Merovingian period are rare: common gold coins bear only a place name and a moneyer name. These moneyer coinages form the background of Merovingian numismatics. More than the Solidus, one then strikes the Tremissis, which can imitate imperial types and whose weight soon decline: the Tremissis of a Constantin contained 1.51 grams of gold; in the 6th century, it weighs only 1.29 grams. In the second half of the 7th century, silver coins reappeared and thus an unstable bimetallism settled. Monetary system thus gradually fell into deep discredit, especially under the last Merovingian kings, in the absence of a centralized guarantee as to the real value of the coins minted by private moneyers.

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Tremissis (476-670)

⅓ Solidus (Tremissis) = 7 Siliquae • 1 Solidus = 21 Siliquae

Light argenteus at christogram - Childebert I (Marseille mint)
(511-558)

Standard circulation coin
Silver • 0.9 g • ⌀ 7.5 mm
Belfort# 5455, MEC I# I, 391, Prou Mer# 36, N# 194041
Tremissis in the name of Justinian I
(527-600)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.43 g • ⌀ 13 mm
MEC I# I, 356 var., Belfort# 5283 var., N# 153746
Tremissis (Cologne mint)
(550-600)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.38 g
Belfort# 6140, Häv# 6, N# 354153
Tremissis (Viviers mint)
(560-585)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.21 g • ⌀ 15 mm
Belfort# 4912, N# 194053
Tremissis - Chilperic I (Vermand mint)
(570-580)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.47 g
Belfort# –, N# 331513
Pseudo-imperial tremissis in the name of Justin II
(570-590)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.27 g • ⌀ 11 mm
Belfort# 5206 ; 5228, Prou Mer# 26, N# 338344
Tremissis - Moneyer Maurelius (Lyon mint)
(585-620)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.26 g • ⌀ 13 mm
Belfort# cf. 2327, Prou Mer# –, N# 338382
Tremissis - Moneyer Ela (Quentovic mint)
(585-620)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.26 g
Prou Mer# 1138-1139, Belfort# 4984-4986, MEC I# I, 472, N# 347590
Tremissis - Moneyer Madelinus (Dorestad mint)
(585-675)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.25 g • ⌀ 14 mm
Belfort# 1760, MEC I# I, 493, Prou Mer# 1225, vdCh 7# 7.2, N# 194044
Tremissis (In the name of Maurice Tiberius; Vienne mint)
(590-595)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.22 g • ⌀ 13 mm
Belfort# 4816, N# 311946
Tremissis - Moneyer Mariulfus (Brive mint)
(590-670)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.23 g • ⌀ 13 mm
Belfort# 6059, N# 194055
Tremissis - Theudebert II (Brioude mint)
(595-612)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.28 g • ⌀ 12 mm
Belfort# –, N# 331724
Tremissis - Theudebert II
(595-612)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.28 g • ⌀ 10 mm
Belfort# 345, Depey Me D# p. 142, 8, pl. 57, N# 347217
Tremissis - Theuderic II (Avenches mint)
(596-613)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.27 g • ⌀ 26 mm
HMZ 1# 73, N# 191028
Tremissis - Moneyer Wintrius (Chalon mint)
(600-620)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.22 g • ⌀ 13 mm
Belfort# 1152, N# 194051
Tremissis - Moneyer Mundericus (Sion mint)
(600-620)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.12 g
HMZ 1# 1-103, Belfort# 4101 var., N# 190203
Tremissis - Moneyer Ghiso (Saint-Maurice d'Agaune abbey)
(600-650)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.36 g
Belfort# –, N# 115027
Tremissis - Moneyer Dacoaldus (Lieusaint mint)
(600-670)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.21 g • ⌀ 14 mm
Belfort# 2216, Prou Mer# 853, N# 194050
Tremissis - Moneyer Bertechramno (Rouen mint)
(600-670)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.18 g • ⌀ 12 mm
Belfort# 3825, N# 194054
⅓ de sou d'or - Monétaire Austrulfus (Vasselay)
(600-675)

Standard circulation coin
Gold • 1.2 g • ⌀ 13 mm
N# 367132

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