bca_579519 - RUDOLPH Denier

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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 550.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c. 930-940

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Château-Landon

Metal : silver

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 1,34 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire présentant un tréflage au revers ainsi que de petites concrétions verte. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

G.- - Prou.- - MG.- - N.-

Obverse

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

Obverse description : Monogramme odonique (sous la forme de deux O losangés, d'une R, d'une S, d'un I et d'une croisette).

Obverse translation : (Par la grâce de Dieu).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + CASTIS LIANDNI, (N RÉTROGRADE).

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Château-Landon).

Historical background

RUDOLPH

(07/13/923-01/15/936)

Raoul is the son of Richard le Justicier, Duke of Burgundy. He married Emma, sister of Hugh the Great, daughter of Robert of France. On the death of Robert I of France at the Battle of Soissons in 923, his son-in-law Raoul was elected king while Charles III the Simple was arrested and dismissed. He must face the rise of the Normans whose king, Rollo, received Normandy at the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in 911. Raoul must face the rise in power of Guillaume Longue Epée, Duke of Normandy, and Hugh, Count of Vermandois. He died in 936, without posterity.