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Price : 2 000.00 €
Type : Obole
Date: c. 898-923
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 0,55 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cette obole est frappée sur un flan irrégulier et voilé. Exemplaire présentant des faiblesses de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + GRATIA DI [REX].
Obverse description : Monogramme de Charles (KAROLVS).
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + / PARI / ISII+ / :..
Reverse description : en quatre lignes dans le champ.
Reverse translation : (Paris).
Commentary
Les ouvrages de référence ne recensent qu’une seule autre obole de ce type conservé au Cabinet des médailles de Paris.
Reference works only list one other coin of this type kept in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris.
Reference works only list one other coin of this type kept in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris.
Historical background
CHARLES III THE SIMPLE
(898-923)
Charles III dit le Simple, posthumous son of Louis le Bègue, was born on November 17, 879. After the death of his older brothers, Louis III and Carloman, he was forgotten in the succession. In 888, after the deposition of Charles the Fat, he opposed the Robertian king Eudes and was crowned king in Reims on January 28, 893 by Archbishop Foulques. Eudes, shortly before his death (January 898), gave him his powers. His campaigns in Lorraine were disastrous and after being dethroned in 922, he became the captive of Herbert de Vermandois. On December 7, 929, he died in captivity at Péronne. His death marks the end of the Carolingian dynasty.
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