v24_1050 - PEPIN THE SHORT Denier

MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 3 000.00 €
Estimate : 5 000.00 €
Realised price : 4 504.00 €
Number of bids : 8
Maximum bid : 5 855.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Lyon

Metal : silver

Diameter : 14,5 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : ,,29 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et présente une patine hétérogène. Infime éclatement de flan à 12 heures au droit

Catalogue references :

G. (2/36) - Prou.626 - MG.24

Obverse

Obverse legend : RP.

Obverse description : dans le champ sous une barre abréviative et cantonné de trois globules.

Obverse translation : (Pépin roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : LVG.

Reverse description : dans le champ sous un barre abréviative et cantonné de deux globules.

Reverse translation : (Lyon).

Historical background

PEPIN THE SHORT

(752-09/24/768)

Pépin le Bref was born in Jupille (Belgium) around 715 from the union of Charles Martel and Rothrud. On October 22, 741, on the death of his father, he became Duke of Neustria, Burgundy and Provence while his older brother Carloman held Austrasia. In 747, Carloman retired to a monastery and left his territories to Pepin who administered them under the authority of the "lazy" king Childeric III. In November 1751, Pépin obtained from Pope Zacharie the dismissal of Childeric III, which marked the end of the Merovingian dynasty; he is crowned king at Soissons by Saint Boniface. On July 27, 754, Pepin the Brief was crowned king of the Franks in the basilica of Saint-Denis by Pope Stephen II. His two sons and heirs, Carloman and Charles (future Charlemagne), are also crowned on the same day. Founder of the Carolingian dynasty, after having been at the origin of the creation of the Papal States and having fought the Saracens, Pépin died on September 24, 768 in Saint-Denis.

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