Live auction - bfe_548379 - PICARDY - SOISSONS - ABBEY OF SAINT-MEDARD Denier

PICARDY - SOISSONS - ABBEY OF SAINT-MEDARD Denier AU

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Estimate :	650 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	29 October 2019 15:44:21

Type : Denier

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Soissons

Metal : silver

Diameter : 20,5 mm

Orientation dies : 7 h.

Weight : 0,98 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Le droit est légèrement concave et la croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit. De petites taches vertes au droit

Catalogue references :

Bd.1900 (5 f.) - PA.6513 (151/24)

Obverse

Obverse legend : [S-CI ME]DAR[D CAPAT].

Obverse description : Tête de saint Médard à droite.

Obverse translation : (Tête de saint Médard).

Reverse

Reverse legend : [...]SEBE-D.[...].

Reverse description : Étendard à gauche, accosté à gauche d’une croix.

Reverse translation : (Saint Médard).

Commentary

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type et gravé par Dardel et illustré planche CLI, n° 24 de l’ouvrage de Faustin Poey d’Avant publié à Paris en 1862.

Historical background

PICARDY - SOISSONS - ABBEY OF SAINT-MEDARD

(extreme end of the 10th 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.