Live auction - bca_524465 - CHARLES III THE SIMPLE Denier

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XF/AU

Estimate :	900 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	04 June 2019 16:19:20

Type : Denier

Date: c. 926-950

Mint name / Town : Toulouse

Metal : silver

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 1,36 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large, légèrement voilé, présentant un éclatement de flan traversant à 7 heures au droit. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise ayant été très légèrement nettoyé

Catalogue references :

Bd.704 (20 f.) - PA.3656 (79/14) - CLR.L441 p. 121

Obverse

Obverse legend : + CARLVS RE.

Obverse description : Croix.

Obverse translation : (Charles, roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + TOLOSA CIVI.

Reverse description : VGO.

Reverse translation : (Cité de Toulouse ; Hugues).

Commentary

Ce rare type monétaire portant le nom d’Hugues est par tradition classé à l’évêque Hugues (926-950). Il s’agirait de l’une des premières monnaies féodales françaises. Poey d’Avant signale (pl.80, n° 7) des deniers avec les prénoms de l’évêque Hugues et de Guillaume Taillefer (950-972). D’après Blanchet (MNF, p. 234-235), VGO pourrait également être le nom d’Hugues Capet, ce que nous rejetons. Ces deniers sont classés par Benabiba et Diazà Charles III le Simple.

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.