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v09_0897 - CHAMPAGNE - MEAUX AND TROYES - ANONYMOUS Denier

CHAMPAGNE - MEAUX AND TROYES - ANONYMOUS Denier XF
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: c. 990-1030
Mint name / Town : Troyes - Meaux
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,47 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan très large et régulier laissant apparaître l'essentiel des grènetis extérieurs. Relief assez haut au droit et au revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : + MELPIS CIVITAO, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 7 HEURES).
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin dégénéré.
Obverse translation : (Cité de Meaux).

Reverse


Reverse legend : + TRECASI CIVI.
Reverse description : Croix .
Reverse translation : (Cité de Troyes).

Historical background


CHAMPAGNE - MEAUX AND TROYES - ANONYMOUS

(10th - 11th centuries)

This denier may have been struck under the domination of the house of Blois. Eudes II (1019-1037), grandson of Thibaut le Tricheur and who succeeded Etienne I of Vermandois (993-1019), already owned a large part of Champagne and was also count of Blois and Chartres. His family was one of the most powerful of Frankish feudalism, often in open struggle against the nascent Capetian power..

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