bca_231870 - RUDOLPH Denier

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Price : 2 200.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c. 940-956

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Châteaudun

Metal : silver

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 5 h.

Weight : 1,29 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise de médaillier. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit

Catalogue references :

G.pl. LIII, n° 14-15 - Prou.506 - MG.1594 - N.13

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de MONNAIES III, n°479

Obverse

Obverse legend : + GRATIA D-I REX, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 9 HEURES).

Obverse description : Monogramme odonique sous la forme +RFS.

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

Reverse

Reverse legend : + DVNIS CASTLLI.

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Châteaudun).

Commentary

Photographiée et publiée dans le BSFN d’avril 1993, p. 540, fig. 3.

Historical background

RUDOLPH

(07/13/923-01/15/936)

Raoul is the son of Richard le Justicier, Duke of Burgundy. He married Emma, sister of Hugh the Great, daughter of Robert of France. On the death of Robert I of France at the Battle of Soissons in 923, his son-in-law Raoul was elected king while Charles III the Simple was arrested and dismissed. He must face the rise of the Normans whose king, Rollo, received Normandy at the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in 911. Raoul must face the rise in power of Guillaume Longue Epée, Duke of Normandy, and Hugh, Count of Vermandois. He died in 936, without posterity.