v60_0071 - CHARLES THE SIMPLE AND COINAGE IN HIS NAME Obole
MONNAIES 60 (2013)
Starting price : 3 900.00 €
Estimate : 7 000.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 3 900.00 €
Estimate : 7 000.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Obole
Date: c. 898-920
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Châlons-en-Champagne
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,65 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Cette obole est frappée sur un flan large, irrégulier et présentant des faiblesses de frappe. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise de médaillier
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection du Lac vendue par Feuardent le 5 juin 1910, n° 544
Obverse
Obverse legend : + CRA[TIA DI] REX, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 6 HEURES).
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin (KAROLVS).
Obverse translation : (Charles, par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + / CATAL / AVN[...] / [+].
Reverse description : en quatre lignes dans le champ séparée par un trait entre constitué de points entre la légende.
Reverse translation : (Châlons).
Commentary
Monnaie de la plus grande rareté et unique.
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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