v16_0706 - ODO AND COINAGE IN HIS NAME Denier

MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 213.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 321.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c.900-980

Mint name / Town : Neustrie, Limoges

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : +900 ‰

Diameter : 23,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,77 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan très large laissant apparaître l’essentiel des grènetis extérieurs. Une légère patine grise recouvre les deux faces de cet exemplaire. Les reliefs sont nets

Catalogue references :

G.26 (47/26) - Prou.779-783 - MG.1332 var. - MEC.1/973 - N.24 - Bd.388 - PA.2274

Obverse

Obverse legend : + GRATIA D-I RE, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 5 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).

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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