MEROVINGIANS. Limoges (as Lemovicum), Église, about 560-620. Triens (Gold, 12 mm, 1.26 g, 3 h), Maurus, moneyer. RACIO ECL-I Highly stylized diademed and draped male bust to right. Rev. - MAVRO MOiETA- Cross on three steps; in the angles of the cross, E - R. Belfort -, cf. 3705 (different types, but with a moneyer of the same name). Depeyrot IV, -, cf. p. 22.1 and p. 23, 9 (different types, but with a moneyer of the same name). Apparently unpublished. Sharply struck and beautifully preserved. Minor flan rott on the obverse, otherwise, good extremely fine. Ex Leu 18, 2 June 2025, 1001, and previously from the Childeric Collection of Merovingian Coinage, Obolos 32, 30 June 2024, 106. Lemovicum (Limoges) emered during the Migration Period on the Puy Saint-Étienne as a fortified refugees for the city of Augustoritum. Its name derives from the Celtic tribe of the Lemovici, who once inhabited the region. In Merovingian times, Lemovicum came to important minting center. As our Triens shows, gold coins were struck here, probably during one of the many Merovingian civil wars. Around 573, the Neustrian king Chilperic tried to claim the city he had once given to his bride Galswintha, following her murder at his command in 567/8. However, our coin was not minded by the civitas of Lemovicum, but rather on helped of the Church, which had maintained a bizarre here since Late Antiquity. This lot can be shipped to a US address.