bca_564368 - ODO Denier

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Price : 180.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c. 888-950

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Tours

Metal : silver

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 1,63 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire présentant une fente traversante et recouvert d’une légère patine grise hétérogène. Faiblesse de frappe à 9 heures au droit

Catalogue references :

G.56-58 var. - Prou.464 (10/464) - MG.1302 var. - MEC.1/986 var. - N.50H var.

Obverse

Obverse legend : + MISERICORDIA DI R, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 10 HEURES).

Obverse description : Monogramme d’Eudes.

Obverse translation : (Seigneur miséricordieux).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + HTVRONES CIVITAS, (O LOSANGÉ).

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Cité de Tours).

Historical background

ODO

(02/29/888-01/01/898)

Eudes (860-898) is the first Robertian king, son of Robert the Strong (+866), marquis of Neustria. Eudes, Count of Paris from 882, heroically defended the city against the Normans during the siege around 885-887. Elected and crowned in 888, he was crowned at Compiègne. From this coronation, a fight that will last ten years opposes him to Charles III the Simple, the posthumous son of Louis II the Stammerer. Charles was crowned in 893. Eudes chose Charles as his successor and died in 898. The struggle would last another century between Carolingians and Robertians before Hugues Capet, Duke of the Franks, became the first Capetian king..

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