bca_415607 - ODO AND COINAGE IN HIS NAME Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 320.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 320.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 888-950
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Limoges
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan très large et irrégulier laissant apparaître l’essentiel des grènetis extérieurs. Exemplaire recouvert d’une très jolie patine de médaillier. Hauts reliefs. La croix du revers apparaît légèrement en négatif au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + GRATIA D-I RE, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 1 HEURES).
Obverse description : Monogramme ODO entre deux croisettes, (O losangés).
Obverse translation : (Eudes, roi par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + LIMOVICAS CIVIS, (O LOSANGÉ, S RÉTROGRADE).
Reverse description : Croix.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Limoges).
Historical background
ODO AND COINAGE IN HIS NAME
(29/2/888-01/01/898 and 10th century)
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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