bca_330443 - LOTHAIR Obole

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Price : 480.00 €

Type : Obole

Date: c. 960-980

Mint name / Town : Bourges

Metal : silver

Diameter : 17,5 mm

Weight : 0,65 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Cette obole est frappée sur un flan assez large, mais avec une frappe confuse, avec une patine sombre et hétérogène

Catalogue references :

G.8 var. (57/8) - Prou.760-761 - MG.1669 - N.10 p. 302

Obverse

Obverse legend : + LOTERIVS REX.

Obverse description : Croix.

Obverse translation : (Lothaire, roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + BITVRICES CIVIT, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 3 HEURES).

Reverse description : Monogramme carolin (KAROLVS).

Reverse translation : (Cité de Bourges).

Historical background

LOTHAIR

(09/12/954-03/02/986)

From 954, Lothaire ceded Aquitaine to Hugh the Great and tried to fight against the rise of feudalism. He ends up falling out with Hugh Capet (duke 956-987, king 987-996), son of Hugh the Great, because he is more powerful than his suzerain. At the beginning of the reign of Louis IV (936-954), a new monetary reform would have changed the size of the denarii to 360 coins per pound of 18 ounces.

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