bfe_1077328 - POITOU - COUNTY OF POITOU - COINAGE IMMOBILIZED IN THE NAME OF CHARLES II THE BALD Obole
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Type : Obole
Date: c. 1050-1150
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Melle (au type de)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,47 g.
Coments on the condition:
Obole présentant un manque de métal et des chocs sur la tranche. Usures et faiblesses de frappe. Taches et patine homogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + CA[R]LVS REX R.
Obverse description : Croix.
Obverse translation : (Charles, roi).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MET/ALO.
Reverse description : En deux lignes dans le champ.
Reverse translation : (Melle).
Historical background
POITOU - COUNTY OF POITOU - COINAGE IMMOBILIZED IN THE NAME OF CHARLES II THE BALD
(10th-12th centuries)
In the 10th century, the Melle workshop belonged to the Counts of Poitiers. This workshop, located near a lead silver mine (still visited), is one of the few mentioned in the edict of Pistre. From 877, the Melle mint continued to mint denarii and obols in the name of the late King Charles II, known as "the Bald". Melle was an active workshop until the middle of the 12th century, a period around which all activity ceased, certainly due to a shortage of wood essential for the extraction of the ore and the smelting operations..
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