Merovingian gold tremissis. Gold, 13mm, 1.34g. Crude bust right, cross behind, CAEPVOLISPE. R. MAVRALDO MON, around the cross ancree in centre. Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum as EMC 2017.0130
https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/full-record/20170130?
(pers. comm.) Your find is a Merovingian (not Anglo-Saxon) tremissis of a moneyer named Mauraldo, reading MAVRALDO MON on the reverse around the cross ancree (a cross with curved ends like an anchor). Unfortunately there are no other known coins of this moneyer, and it is not possible to identify the mint. The inscription on the obverse – CAEPVOLISPE(?) –
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