bca_680413 - ODO Denier
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Price : 500.00 €
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Price : 500.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: c. 888-898
Mint name / Town : Orléans
Metal : silver
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,55 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et plutôt régulier. Exemplaire de toute beauté recouvert d’une jolie patine aux reflets irisés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + CRATIA D-I.
Obverse description : Monogramme d’Eudes (ODO) et REX.
Obverse translation : (Eudes, roi par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + AVRELIANIS CIVITAS.
Reverse description : Croix.
Reverse translation : (Cité d’Orléans).
Commentary
Légende courte au droit avec GRATIA D-I au lieu de GRATIA D-I REX.
Historical background
ODO
(02/29/888-01/01/898)
Eudes (860-898) is the first Robertian king, son of Robert the Strong (+866), marquis of Neustria. Eudes, Count of Paris from 882, heroically defended the city against the Normans during the siege around 885-887. Elected and crowned in 888, he was crowned at Compiègne. From this coronation, a fight that will last ten years opposes him to Charles III the Simple, the posthumous son of Louis II the Stammerer. Charles was crowned in 893. Eudes chose Charles as his successor and died in 898. The struggle would last another century between Carolingians and Robertians before Hugues Capet, Duke of the Franks, became the first Capetian king..
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