v35_0005 - CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD Denier
MONNAIES 35 (2008)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 520.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 520.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: Édit de Pistres, 25/06/864
Mint name / Town : Soissons
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : +950 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 1,42 g.
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large et irrégulier. Exemplaire présentant quelques faiblesses de frappe et recouvert d’une légère patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + GRATIA D-I REX.
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin (KAROLVS).
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + SVESSIO CIVITAS.
Reverse description : Croix.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Soissons).
Historical background
CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD
(20/06/840-6/10/877)
Charles the Bald became king on the death of his father, Louis the Pious, on June 20, 840. At the Treaty of Verdun in 843, the Carolingian empire was shared between Louis' three sons. Lothair receives Lotharingia, Louis the German, Francia Orientalis and Charles Francia Occidentalis. The type with the Christian legend predates 864 and the reform of the Edict of Pîtres, but it must be later than 843. It may have been struck between 850 and 860.
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