v39_0027 - CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD Denier
MONNAIES 39 (2009)
Starting price : 1 500.00 €
Estimate : 3 500.00 €
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Starting price : 1 500.00 €
Estimate : 3 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: c. 840-875
Mint name / Town : Bourges
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 0,96 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est fragmentaire mais les manques n’affectent pas la lecture des types de droit et de revers. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + CARLVS REX.
Obverse description : Buste habillé et lauré à gauche de Charles le Chauve.
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ./BITV/./RICES/[.].
Reverse description : en deux lignes dans le champ, entre des points.
Reverse translation : (Bourges).
Commentary
Rare monnaie carolingienne avec le buste du roi.
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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