bfe_343257 - POITOU - COUNTY OF POITOU - COINAGE IMMOBILIZED IN THE NAME OF CHARLES II THE BALD Obole
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Type : Obole
Date: circa 1050-1100
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Melle
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,47 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Cette obole est frappée sur un flan large et irrégulier. Petite faiblesse de frappe. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise et présentant de petites taches vertes
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + CARLVS REX [R].
Obverse description : Croix.
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MET / . / ALO.
Reverse description : en deux lignes dans le champ.
Reverse translation : (Melle).
Commentary
Point dans le A dans le A de CARLVS.
Historical background
POITOU - COUNTY OF POITOU - COINAGE IMMOBILIZED IN THE NAME OF CHARLES II THE BALD
(10th-12th centuries)
In the 10th century, the Melle workshop belonged to the Counts of Poitiers. This workshop, located near a lead silver mine (still visited), is one of the few mentioned in the edict of Pistre. From 877, the Melle mint continued to mint denarii and obols in the name of the late King Charles II, known as "the Bald". Melle was an active workshop until the middle of the 12th century, a period around which all activity ceased, certainly due to a shortage of wood essential for the extraction of the ore and the smelting operations..
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