bca_471816 - LOUIS THE GERMAN Denier

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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 3 000.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Metz

Metal : silver

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 4 h.

Weight : 1,48 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire présentant de hauts reliefs en dépit d’infimes faiblesses de frappe. Exemplaire recouvert d’une jolie patine grise de médaillier

Catalogue references :

G.2 (pl. XXXVIII/2) - Prou.130 - MG.1241

Obverse

Obverse legend : + GRATIA D-I REX.

Obverse description : LVDOVVICVS autour d’une croix évidée.

Obverse translation : (Louis roi, par la grâce de Dieu).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + METTIS CIVITAS.

Reverse description : Croix cantonnée de quatre groupes de deux annelets.

Reverse translation : (Cité de Metz).

Commentary

Rare type monétaire avec seulement quatre exemplaires recensés par Georges Depeyrot.

Historical background

LOUIS THE GERMAN

(840-876)

Louis, the third son of Louis the Pious and Ermengarde, failed to get along with his brother Lothaire and his half-brother Charles when their father died. At the Treaty of Verdun in 843, he received Germania as a share. On the death of Louis, his inheritance passed for a short time into the hands of Charles II the Bald. For the first time, the fiction of a unitary empire was restored, but only for a few months. Charles died the following year.