Coins and Tokens

An Anglo-Saxon shilling with a figure in profile modeled off a diademed bust of a Late Roman emperor on the front, and double emperor busts on either side of a globe topped with a statue of winged Victory (also modeled off Late Roman coinage) on the reverse.

Cast out of gold.

Made in the 660s by the Anglo-Saxons in England.

A pseudoimperial tremissis with a bust of the Byzantine emperor Justin I on the front, and a very abstracted Victory advancing to the right on the reverse.

Cast out of gold.

Made in the late 6th century by the Merovingian Franks in Gaul.

A pseudoimperial coin with a bust of the Byzantine emperor Justin II on the front, and Victory advancing to the right on the reverse.

Cast out of gold.

Made in the late 6th century by the Visigoths in Spain.

A Carolingian denarius with a classicizing imperial bust of emperor Louis the Pious on the front, and a ship being oared on a tumultuous sea on the reverse.

Cast out of silver.

Made in the 810s at La Caloterrie in the northern Carolingian domains (near Belgium).