VISIGOTHS, Gaul. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Uncertain king. 417-507. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.43 g, 6h). Imitating a Ravenna mint issue of the Roman emperor Valentinian III (425-455). Uncertain mint in Gaul. Struck circa 425-455 or later.

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VISIGOTHS, Gaul. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Uncertain king. 417-507. AV Solidus (22mm, 4.43 g, 6h). Imitating a Ravenna mint issue of the Roman emperor Valentinian III (425-455). Uncertain mint in Gaul. Struck circa 425-455 or later. D N PLΛ VΛLENTINIΛNVS P F AVC, pearl-and-rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; trace of pearled ring above; all within wreath / VICTORI Λ ΛVCCC, Valentinian standing facing, with foot on human-headed serpent, holding long cross and crowning Victory; R-V//COMOB; all within wreath. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe –; cf. RIC X 3716 (for type); cf. Reinhart, Münzen 11 (same); BM Inv. B.12573 (same obv. die); cf. MEC 1 170 (same); CNG 72, lot 2231 (same dies). Pearled ring smoothed down on obverse. Near EF.

From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Londinium Collection (Triton XXII, 8 January 2019), lot 1212.

‘A rescript of the Emperor Majorian of 458 refers disparagingly to Gallic solidi of inferior value, and an appendix to the Leges Burgundionum (in italics) of the early sixth century denies legal tender to several groups of imitations, one of them struck the Visigothic king Alaric II (484-507).’ Grierson, p.5.

Closing Date and Time: 25 March 2020 at 10:03:40 ET.

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