This paper presents a small group of Lombard gold crosses showing some relationships with contemporary coinage. Two of them, cut from the tremisses of Liutprand (712-744 AD), were found at Fordongianus in Sardinia. Another, whose provenance is unknown, is nowadays kept in the Rovati Collection in Monza. A round gold disk is tied at the intersection of the cross limbs. It could be a tremissis of the Lombard king Ratchis (744-749 AD). The decoration of four crosses (from Novara, Milan, Vicenza and maybe Benevento) was copied from gold coins of the Byzantine emperors Justin II (565-578 AD), Heraclius(610-641 AD) and Leon III (717-742 AD).
Perassi, C., Sacro e profano. Suggestioni monetali nelle crocette auree longobarde, in Baldini, I., Morelli, A. L. (ed.), Oro sacro. Aspetti religiosi ed economici da Atene a Bisanzio, Ante quem, Bologna 2014: 183- 205 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/55772]
Sacro e profano. Suggestioni monetali nelle crocette auree longobarde
Perassi, Claudia
2014
Abstract
This paper presents a small group of Lombard gold crosses showing some relationships with contemporary coinage. Two of them, cut from the tremisses of Liutprand (712-744 AD), were found at Fordongianus in Sardinia. Another, whose provenance is unknown, is nowadays kept in the Rovati Collection in Monza. A round gold disk is tied at the intersection of the cross limbs. It could be a tremissis of the Lombard king Ratchis (744-749 AD). The decoration of four crosses (from Novara, Milan, Vicenza and maybe Benevento) was copied from gold coins of the Byzantine emperors Justin II (565-578 AD), Heraclius(610-641 AD) and Leon III (717-742 AD).
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