bca_400500 - CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD Obole
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Obole
Date: c. 864-875
Mint name / Town : Saint-Denis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 0,68 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cette obole est frappée sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine foncée et présentant quelques faiblesses de frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la live-auction d’avril 2016, n° bry_386209
Obverse
Obverse legend : + ACRATIA D-I REX, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 9 HEURES).
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin (KAROLVS).
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + S- DIONVM, (D EN FORME DE DELTA).
Reverse description : Croix cantonnée au 2 d’un besant.
Reverse translation : (Monastère de Saint-Denis).
Commentary
Monnaie présentant nettement un besant dans le deuxième canton de la croix, ce qui est en fait un exemplaire manquant aux ouvrages de référence.
Coin clearly showing a bezant in the second canton of the cross, which is in fact a example missing from reference works
Coin clearly showing a bezant in the second canton of the cross, which is in fact a example missing from reference works
Historical background
CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD
(20/06/840-6/10/877)
Charles the Bald became king on the death of his father, Louis the Pious, on June 20, 840. At the Treaty of Verdun in 843, the Carolingian empire was shared between Louis' three sons. Lothair receives Lotharingia, Louis the German, Francia Orientalis and Charles Francia Occidentalis. The type with the Christian legend predates 864 and the reform of the Edict of Pîtres, but it must be later than 843. It may have been struck between 850 and 860.
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