v17_2360 - MOUZON - OTTO I, KING OF GERMANY THEN EMPEROR Denier

MOUZON - OTTO I, KING OF GERMANY THEN EMPEROR Denier XF

MONNAIES 17 (2002)
Starting price : 1 200.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
Realised price : 1 550.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 2 120.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c. 948

Mint name / Town : Mouzon

Metal : silver

Diameter : 18 mm

Weight : 1,06 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan un peu court, irrégulier et légèrement voilé. Les reliefs sont assez nets. Une légère patine grise de collection recouvre les deux faces de cet exemplaire

Obverse

Obverse legend : [+]OTTO REX.

Obverse description : Croix cantonnée de quatre besants.

Obverse translation : (Othon roi).

Reverse

Reverse description : Légende en trois lignes : +MO/ SVMAs/ C+, M onciale, A non barré et S plus petite.

Reverse translation : (Mouzon).

Commentary

Exceptionnel exemplaire de ce denier d’une grande importance historique. Ce denier est un témoin rarissime des luttes entre les archevêques Artaud et Hugues et entre le roi Othon Ier de Germanie, Louis IV d’Outremer et les Robertiens.

Historical background

MOUZON - OTTO I, KING OF GERMANY THEN EMPEROR

(936-962-973)

Otto I the Great is the son of Henry I the Birdcatcher. King of Germany from 936, he inherited a power weakened by the feudal insiders and threatened by the Hungarians and the Slavs outside. He gradually crushed the revolts of the dukes and entrusted the administration to faithful abbots and bishops, whom he invested with temporal power. In 955, he defeated the Hungarians at Lechfeld, which earned him immense prestige, increased by his intervention in French quarrels and in Italy where he was crowned king in 951. During his second expedition to the Italian peninsula, he received at Rome of Pope John XII the imperial coronation (February 2, 962). Walking in the footsteps of Charlemagne, Otho I had his dignity recognized by marrying his son, the future Otho II, to Theophano, daughter of Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine emperor.