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Live starting : Type : Denier
Date: c. 898-923
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Strasbourg
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 1,24 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Denier frappé sur un flan assez régulier. Présence de faiblesses de frappe sur les légendes. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + MROLVS PIVS REX (LÉGENDE DÉGÉNÉRÉE).
Obverse description : Croix.
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ARGENT[I - N]A CIVITS.
Reverse description : en deux lignes dans le champ.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Strasbourg).
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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