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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 5243708, member: 56653&quot;]A grand denier of Chartres:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218125[/ATTACH] </p><p>AR22x21mm 1.20g grand denier, minted in the city of Chartres around 1000.</p><p>+ CARTIS CIVITAS; cross</p><p>Chartraine tete/monogramme de Raoul degeneree, with three besants</p><p>Poey d&#039;Avant 1731, Boudeau 206, Duplessy 431</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the issue that stabilizes the feudal coinage at Chartres, under Eudes I and Thibaut II de Blois, marking the typology that would continue off and on until the early 14th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>These grand deniers are specific of the late 10th century early 11th and served as blueprints for countless immobilizations on lower flans and weights. Both Poey d&#039;Avant and Boudeau place this issue at the beginning of the series for feudal Chartres.</p><p><br /></p><p>A discussion about the origin of the reverse design with the controversy between the &quot;bleso-chartraine tete&quot; (a stylized effigy of a royal bust, stemming likely from Chinon) and the premeditated degeneration of the monogram of King Raoul (923-936) can be read <a href="http://bibnum.enc.sorbonne.fr/omeka/files/original/5d746329934ed0025787adc48e7ae981.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bibnum.enc.sorbonne.fr/omeka/files/original/5d746329934ed0025787adc48e7ae981.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similar specimen <a href="https://www.cgb.fr/chartres-comte-de-chartres-eudes-ier-denier-ttb-,bfe_619481,a.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cgb.fr/chartres-comte-de-chartres-eudes-ier-denier-ttb-,bfe_619481,a.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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