bca_231850 - RUDOLPH Denier

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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 450.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c. 930-940

Mint name / Town : Chartres

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : +900 ‰

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 8 h.

Weight : 1,40 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Exemplaire présentant quelques faiblesses de frappe et recouvert d’une jolie patine de médaillier. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit

Catalogue references :

G.10, 12 pl. LIII - Prou.500 - MG.1592 - N.11

Predigree :

Monnaie provenant certainement du trésor dit "du Loiret" et de MONNAIES III, n° 480

Obverse

Obverse legend : + CRATIA D-I REX, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 9 HEURES).

Obverse description : Monogramme de Raoul.

Obverse translation : (Roi, par la grâce de Dieu).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + CARTIS CIVITAS.

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Cité de Chartres).

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.