v54_0012 - CHARLES THE SIMPLE AND COINAGE IN HIS NAME Denier
MONNAIES 54 (2012)
Starting price : 1 000.00 €
Estimate : 1 800.00 €
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Starting price : 1 000.00 €
Estimate : 1 800.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: circa 898-936
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Tours-Chinon
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 1,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier présentant des faiblesses de frappe. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + CAINONI [C]ASTRO.
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin (KAROLVS, avec O losangé).
Obverse translation : (Château de Chinon).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + TVRONES CIVITA[S], (O LOSANGÉ).
Reverse description : Croix.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Tours).
Commentary
Monnaie particulièrement rare absente de nombreuses collections.
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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