Witmen Tremissis: Bust and Trident (obverse); Cross Fourchée (reverse)
early 600s
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Witmen Tremissis: Bust and Trident (obverse); Cross Fourchée (reverse), early 600s. England, Anglo-Saxon, early 7th century. Gold; diameter: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1969.159 The tremissis was a small solid gold coin of late antiquity and was a third of a solidus.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Coins
- Formatted Medium
- gold
- Medium
- gold
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: WITMEN MONITA Translation: Witmen the Moneyer Remark: Intention was blundered when it was copied
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1969.159
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1969, <em>English Gold Coins: Ancient to Modern Times.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1963).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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