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(en) The Carolingian Empire, which stretched from Western to Central Europe, was the result of the territorial expansion of the Frankish kingdoms under the influence of the Carolingian dynasty during the Early Middle Ages. When Pepin the Short, founder of the Carolingian dynasty, came to power in 751, he fought against monetary anarchy by imposing a silver-based standard. His son Charlemagne decided in 781 to give a forced exchange rate to the currency (20 solidi, so 240 Deniers per Carolingian pound), in order to promote cash exchanges and put an end to barter. By instituting the royal monopoly on mints, Charlemagne really founded Carolingian currency and extended it to the whole of Europe. In 814, his son Louis the Pious continued this policy, adding a new division, the Obol, worth half a Denier. The Empire was finally divided among Charlemagne's grandsons in 843, after the death of Louis the Pious in 840, giving rise to West Francia, East Francia and Middle Francia in between. The latter will experience successive fragmentations throughout the period, with the kingdoms of Italy and Provence to the south, Lotharingia to the north, itself later divided into two separate duchies. The political instabilities caused by fratricidal struggles and external pressures, especially Norman, gradually provoked a challenge to the royal monopoly and the end of the period saw the emergence of a decentralized feudal coinage. The silver Denier characteristic of the Carolingian Empire is nevertheless the direct or indirect model of all Western coinage produced from the 9th to the 13th century.
Obol - Louis I (Bourges)
(781-814) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.74 g
Morrison# 386, Prou Car# 656, Gariel Car# XIV/4, Depeyr Car# 381, N# 451308
Obol - Louis I (Bourges)
(781-814) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.58 g • ⌀ 14.7 mm
Prou Car# 655, Depeyr Car# 183, Morrison# 385, N# 339576
Obol - Louis I (Melle)
(781-814) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.64 g • ⌀ 16 mm
Prou Car# 709-710, Morrison# 393-394, Gariel Car# XIV/5, Depeyr Car# 613, MEC I# 777-778, N# 324362
Obol - Louis I (as emperor)
(818-823) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.78 g
Morrison# 387-388, Prou Car# 658, Gariel Car# XIV/19, Nouchy# 12 (p. 89), N# 343794
Obol - Louis I
(818-823) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.68 g
Morrison# 391 ; 464, Gariel Car# XIV/3, Nouchy# 12 (p. 89) var., Depeyr Car# 181 var., N# 451463
Obol - Lothair I
(830-833) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.60 g
Morrison# 554, Prou Car# 658a, Nouchy# 8 (p. 113), N# 343458
Obol - Charles II
(832-845) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.69 g
Morrison# 1049-1055, Prou Car# 668-669; 673-674, Gariel Car# XXII/28-31, Nouchy# 9 (p. 124), MEC I# 834, N# 343404
Obol - Pepin II (AQVITANIA)
(845-848) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.62 g • ⌀ 17.5 mm
Morrison# 598; 601-604, Prou Car# 659-664, Gariel Car# XX/1-3, MEC I# 812-813, N# 185977
Obol - Pepin II (EQVITANIORVM)
(845-848) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.64 g
Morrison# 600, Prou Car# 666-667, Gariel Car# XX/5, MEC I# cf. I, 811, N# 348354
Obol - Pepin II (Melle)
(845-848) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.82 g
Morrison# 608, Prou Car# 691, Gariel Car# XXXVII/4, MEC I# 815, N# 346259
Obol - Pepin II (Limoges)
(845-848) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 0.40 g • ⌀ 16 mm
Morrison# 611, Prou Car# –, Gariel Car# XX/11, N# 348377
Denier - Pepin I (bust and temple)
(818) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро 950 • 1.50 g • ⌀ 20 mm
Morrison# 597, Prou Car# 665, Depeyr Car# 176, Gariel Car# XX/6, N# 346260
Denier - Louis I (as emperor)
(818-823) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 1.75 g
Morrison# 389-390, Prou Car# 657, Gariel Car# XIV/18, Nouchy# 11 (p. 89), MEC I# 763-764, Depeyr Car# 178, N# 343796
Denier - Lothair I (Tours)
(830-833) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 1.6 g
Morrison# 553, Gariel Car# LX/25, Nouchy# 15 (p. 115), Depeyr Car# 1038, N# 453682
Denier - Lothair I (Bordeaux)
(830-833) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 1.60 g
Morrison# 555, Nouchy# 9 (p. 113), Gariel Car# LIX/13, Prou Car# 790, N# 343457
Obol - Conrad I (Lyon)
(942-979) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Биллон • 0.45 g
Dy féodales# 2526, PA# –, Morrison# –, Depeyr Car# 534, N# 347584
Obol - Rudolph III (Lyon; temple)
(993-1032) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Биллон • 0.60 g
Dy féodales# 2529, Gariel Car# LXVII/3, Prou Car# 639, PA# CXII/13 ; 17, Chwartz# 215, N# 346026
Denier - Conrad I
(937-993) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 1.20 g
HMZ 1# 1-552Aa, CNI I# S. 34, 8, Biaggi# 2380, PA# 5005, N# 187936
Denier - Henry III (Lyon)
(1038-1058) Монеты › Стандартные монеты обращения
Серебро • 1.17 g
Dy féodales# 2532, PA# CXII/24, Gariel Car# LXVII/1, Chwartz# 217, N# 346028
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