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Obv.: (T)RI ECTOFI(T), i.e. TRIECTO FIT, for Traiectum fitur, meaning ‘produced at Maastricht’.
Rev: THRASEMVNDVS.
Weight: 1.3g (13mm)
Mint: Maastricht
Found in 2004: England, at the 'South Lincolnshire productive site' in the parish of Heckington, in North Kesteven. The site is exceptional for the quantity of continental coins of the 7th and 8th centuries, implying it had a significant role in North Sea trade. It may have suffered a real decline or been abandoned by the 9th century.
Date: The monetarius Thrasemundus worked in the early decades of the 7th century.
The coin is exceptionally rare and historically important. Helmeted busts are highly unusual on Merovingian coins.
The coin was published in "The Celator", Vol. 18. No. 5, May 2004 "A rare coin of Thrasemundus of Maastricht" by Arnout Bruins and Dirk Faltin
Collection : Merovingians - Gold