E-auction 45-18531 - bfe_250460 - PICARDY - SOISSONS - ANONYMOUS Denier

PICARDY - SOISSONS - ANONYMOUS Denier VF

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Estimate :	750 €
Price :	174 €
Maximum bid :	251 €
End of the sale :	24 February 2014 16:37:30
bidders :	11 bidders

Type : Denier

Date: c. 990-1000

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Soissons

Metal : silver

Diameter : 20 mm

Weight : 1,05 g.

Rarity : UNIQUE

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement voilé. Exemplaire présentant des faiblesses de frappe et recouvert d’une légère patine grise

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - PA.-

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 46, n° 529

Obverse

Obverse legend : [...]FN[...]IC[...], (PSEUDO-LÉGENDE).

Obverse description : Temple posé sur un degré, portant en cœur une croix, accosté de deux annelets entre deux besants verticaux.

Reverse

Reverse legend : [...]HMVC[...]OH[...], (PSEUDO-LÉGENDE).

Reverse description : Croix cantonnée de quatre besants.

Commentary

Monnaie de la plus grande rareté et propotype semblant unique et absent des ouvrages de référence, notamment l’étude de Michel Dhénin et Michel Hourlier sur les monnaies de Soissons (RN 1998).

Historical background

PICARDY - SOISSONS - ANONYMOUS

(end of tenth century)

Eudes I of Blois, son of Thibaud I the Cheat (died in 975), received the Saint-Médard de Soissons abbey. He died on March 12, 996 leaving a widow who married King Robert II. He had coins minted in his name at Soissons, probably at the same time or shortly before those bearing the name of the abbeys of Saint-Médard and Saint-Sébastien; the spelling of the letters makes it possible to affirm that they are the work of the same engraver. The Soissonnais was a hereditary stronghold of the House of Vermandois. In the 12th century, the county passed to the house of Nesle.