bca_854645 - CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD Obole
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Type : Obole
Date: circa 855-866
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Melle
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,70 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Obole frappée sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Des rayures ainsi que des traces d’usure sont visibles. La patine est sombre et hétérogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin (Karolus).
Obverse translation : (Charles).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + METVLLO, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 11 HEURES).
Reverse description : Croix.
Reverse translation : (Melle).
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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