bca_596534 - ODO Denier

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Price : 500.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Blois

Metal : silver

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 7 h.

Weight : 1,75 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et irrégulier présentant de petites faiblesses de frappe dans la légende du droit. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise

Catalogue references :

G.- - Prou.482-483 var. - MG.1311 var.

Obverse

Obverse legend : + MISERICORDIA DI, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 9 HEURES).

Obverse description : Monogramme odonique (type RODOLFVS).

Obverse translation : (Miséricorde de Dieu).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + BLESIANIS CASTRO, (O LOSANGÉ).

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Château de Blois).

Commentary

Variété avec monogramme pouvant être lu comme celui de Raoul.

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..