bca_256496 - RUDOLPH Denier

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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 350.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c. 923-936

Mint name / Town : Orléans

Metal : silver

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 7 h.

Weight : 1,27 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Exemplaire présentant de petites faiblesses de frappe et recouvert d’une jolie patine grise. Concrétions au revers

Catalogue references :

G.31-36 var. (54/31-36 var.) - Prou.525-529 var. - MG.1595-1600 var. - MEC.1/- - N.30 - Fécamp.6792-6804

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient du Trésor de Fécamp

Obverse

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

Obverse description : Monogramme de type carolin (KAROLFVS).

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

Reverse

Reverse legend : + AVRELIANIS CIVITA.

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Cité d'Orléans).

Commentary

Variété avec un I au-dessus du O losangé du monogramme.

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.