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Live auction - bca_393831 - CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD Denier

CHARLES II LE CHAUVE / THE BALD Denier XF
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Estimate : 1 200 €
Price : 650 €
Maximum bid : 677 €
End of the sale : 28 June 2016 15:57:15
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Denier
Date: c. 875-877
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Bourges
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 1,70 g.
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine et présentant de petites taches sur les deux faces
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : + CRATIA DEI REX, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 9 HEURES).
Obverse description : Monogramme carolin (KAROLVS).
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi, par la grâce de Dieu).

Reverse


Reverse legend : + BITVRICES CIVIT.
Reverse description : Croix.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Bourges).

Commentary


Ce type de denier est très rare, avec seulement trois exemplaire étudiés par Georges Depeyrot. Cette monnaie est absente du Morrison-Grunthal, ces auteurs la considérant comme féodale. La graphie des lettres est en effet à mi-chemin entre les monnaies carolingiennes et féodales. Une attribution à Charles III pourrait être envisagée.

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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