id:			144366
accession number:	1969.159
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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

title:				Witmen Tremissis: Bust and Trident (obverse); Cross Fourchée (reverse)
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series:				
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creation date:			early 600s
creation date earliest:		600
creation date latest:		625
current location:		
creditline:			The Norweb Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	England, Anglo-Saxon, early 7th century
technique:	gold
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Numismatics
type:		Coins
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Diameter: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	WITMEN MONITA
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1969
	opening date:   1970-01-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>English Gold Coins: Ancient to Modern Times.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1963).

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Emery May Holden Norweb (1895-1984), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -1969
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1969-
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fun fact:
The tremissis was a small solid gold coin of late antiquity and was a third of a solidus.

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wall description:
The Crondall Hoard is a hoard of coins that was found in 1828 in the village of Crondall in the English county of Hampshire. It is believed to date to the seventh century and was studied by Dr. Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland (1908-1986), an English numismatist. He characterized this coin as being a close copy of the Witmen prototype, the most common type found in the hoard. Witmen, or his design, featuring a bust on one side and a cross on the other, seems to have been very popular and remained popular for many years. During this time however the portraits grew cruder and cruder, the legends became even more blundered, and the gold content fell lower and lower.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Emery May Norweb. <em>English Gold Coins, Ancient to Modern Times, On Loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art from the Norweb Collection</em>. [Catalog. 1968.
	page number: 	p. 18
	url:		

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