Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1292. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEROVINGIANS. Orleans. Time of Dagobert I. Circa 620-640 AD. AV Tremissis (1.26 gm, 6h). Iaco, moneyer. IACOTE MONE, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AVR[ILIA]NIS, cross ancrée on globe. Depeyrot III pg. 68, Type 13-1A, 8 (this coin cited); Belfort 497; Prou 619; cf. MEC 1, 461-463. EF, small edge ding. ($1500)

From the Robert Schonwalter Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen 81 (18-19 September 1995), lot 962.

Friedenberg, pg. 7-8, presents the argument for Iacote (Jacob) being a Jewish moneyer at Orleans, one of the earliest appearances of such on a western European coin.