v31_0910 - CHARLES THE SIMPLE AND COINAGE IN HIS NAME Denier
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 800.00 €
Realised price : 685.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 765.00 €
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 800.00 €
Realised price : 685.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 765.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 898-923
Mint name / Town : Metz
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 1,42 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine foncée et sur lequel la croix du revers apparaît légèrement en négatif au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la vente de la collection Paul Bordeaux d’après une étiquette vendue avec la monnaie. Il pourrait s’agit du n° 311, p. 25, du catalogue de la vente Bordeaux dispersée à l’hôtel Drouot les 28, 29 et 30 novembre 1927 (experts Feuardent frères)
Obverse
Obverse legend : + GRATIA D- I IIX, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 9 HEURES).
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin (KAROLVS).
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + METTIS EIVITAS.
Reverse description : Croix.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Metz).
Historical background
CHARLES THE SIMPLE AND COINAGE IN HIS NAME
(898-923) and 10th century
Charles III dit le Simple, posthumous son of Louis le Bègue, was born on November 17, 879. After the death of his older brothers, Louis III and Carloman, he was forgotten in the succession. In 888, after the deposition of Charles the Fat, he opposed the Robertian king Eudes and was crowned king in Reims on January 28, 893 by Archbishop Foulques. Eudes, shortly before his death (January 898), gave him his powers. His campaigns in Lorraine were disastrous and after being dethroned in 922, he became the captive of Herbert de Vermandois. On December 7, 929, he died in captivity at Péronne.
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