France - AV Triens n.d, Gold, Les Mérovingiens Haute Loire. Brioude. Stylized head right BRIVATEVICO EITVR. Rev. man walking with staff and crescent X AVDIRICVS MONETA.Belfort 999; Prou 1784. G&B. –As the Roman Empire in the west declined, the supply of Imperial gold coins dried up and the Franks, like the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths and other emergent Germanic kingdoms issued their own coinage, in many cases in the name of the emperor in far-off Constantinople. These ‘pseudo-imperial’ coins are mostly somewhat crude in style and often attributed to ‘uncertain mints’. Inscriptions are often blundered and die engravers sometimes did not clearly understand what they were copying. 1.27 g. RRR. Exceptionally well-struck from dies of superb style with a finely-detailed reverse die and struck on a good flan of bright yellow gold Extremely fine