bca_232007 - CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD Obole
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 400.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 400.00 €
Type : Obole
Date: c. 875-877
Mint name / Town : Maastricht
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,48 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Obole fragmentaire frappée sur un flan voilé et présentant des manques de métal. Une patine grise la recouvre
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de la région de Cambrai (3e lot découvert à la fin de l’été 2007) (MONNAIES 33, n° 1020) et de MONNAIES 35, n° 34 et de MONNAIES 42, n° 45
Obverse
Obverse legend : [...]PERATO[R] ACVS[...].
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin (KAROLVS) déformé.
Obverse translation : (Charles, empereur auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + IN POR[...]ITO N[...].
Reverse description : Croix.
Reverse translation : (Du port de Maastricht).
Commentary
Obole de la plus grande rareté.
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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