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English: The engraving in De Belfort (No. 1934) of an early 7th-century gold tremissis minted in Merovingian France or Friesland by an otherwise unknown moneyer or petty king named Audulf. The coin was apparently discovered at Wiewurt, Friesland, in the Netherlands and is now held by the BnF Museum in Paris. The engraving has a 5-pointed star on the reverse, where the actual coin has a 6-pointed one.

Whether Frankish or Frisian, the coin is a late example of the tremissis originally intended to represent ⅓ solidus. The tremissis is also described as a triens &c. in Frankish contexts and a thrymsa &c. in Anglo-Saxon English contexts. As such, this coin type is now usually described as an "Audulfus Frisia Triens". Griegson notes the issue has a diademed bust facing right obverse and a cross potent on a triangular base and step reverse. The coin has an upper-case alpha (Α) under the cross's left arm and a lower-case omega (ω) under the cross's left arm, both connected upwards to create the appearance of a scale.

Obverse: AVDVLFVS FRISIA [Audulfus Frisia, generally understood as intending either "Audulf King in Frisia" or "Minted by Audulf the Frisian"]

Reverse: VICTVRIA AVDVLFO [intending VICTORIA AVDVLFO, generally understood as either commemorating "Victory by Audulf" over the Franks, some other local enemy, or paganism or as a partially garbled mimicking of earlier tremisses and solidi, particularly the CHLOTARII VICTVRIA issues of Clothar II]

Alongside the source article, see also Griegson, De Nederlandsche Bank, & Vanbrabant.
Français :
FRISIA


AVDVLFVS

1934. — ɅVDVLFVSFRISIɅ. Bust diadémé, à droite, drapé à l'antique.

℞. VICTVRIɅɅVDVLFO. Croix latine soudée sur une base semi-circulaire, au dessus d'un degré, accostée de Α ധ suspendus aux bras. Dans le champ, à droite, une étoile. A l'exergue entre deux globules.
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Source Description Générale des Monnaies Mérovingiennes par Ordre Alphabétique des Ateliers, No. 1934.
Author Auguste de Belfort
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Tremissis of Audulf, a petty king or moneyer of Frisia

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