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Thrymsa 'LONDINIV' type
| Emittent | Early Anglo-Saxon |
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| Jahr | 620-645 |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Central design features a cross pattée set within a circle, with a small pellet or annulet in each of the four angles formed between the arms of the cross and the enclosing ring, a motif derived from late Roman and Merovingian coinage. The surrounding field bears a beaded or roped border, and the retrograde Latin legend LONDVNIV (or LONDINIV) appears distributed around the circumference, identifying London as the place of issue. The lettering is angular and somewhat irregular in spacing, consistent with the hand-cut dies of the period. The reverse exhibits the characteristically uneven surface of a hammered gold flan. |
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| Reverslegende | LONDVNIV (Translation: London.) |
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The thrymsa — Anglo-Saxon England's earliest gold coinage — was struck in imitation of Merovingian tremisses circulating across the Channel, adapted by local moneyers who understood trade better than they understood Latin. The LONDINIV legend on this type places production at London during a period when the city was operating as a Frisian merchant hub rather than any kind of administrative capital, its mint activity driven by commerce along the Thames estuary rather than royal decree.
Metcalf's die studies suggest the type spans perhaps two decades of output, with considerable variation across the series. Attribution to a single mint authority remains contested.