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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8006683, member: 110504&quot;]It was time to do this.&nbsp; ...Mine was also the only bid on the lot.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1389070[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Carolingian /Robertian France.&nbsp; Raoul, 923-936.&nbsp; Denier of Paris.</p><p>Obv. Early, cleverly subtle reworking of the iconic Carolingian &#039;KAROLVS&#039; monogram:</p><p>&#039;R ([center:] o d v) L F [...v again] S.&#039;</p><p>+GRATA DI REX.&nbsp; (The formulaic Carolingian &#039;GRATIA D-I REX&#039; legend, minus the dash.)</p><p>Rev.&nbsp; In four lines: + / [P]ARISI [&#039;S&#039;, retrograde] / CIVITA / +</p><p>My own references (unlike cgb&#039;s own, which, from here, are frankly more arcane):</p><p>Depeyrot (3rd ed., 2008) 774.</p><p>Nouchy, <u>Les Rois Carolingiens</u>, p. 283, No. 34.&nbsp; Cf. p. 272 and plate for Raoul&#039;s three principal monograms.</p><p>I&#039;d always liked the Carolingian issues with two or more horizontal legends; for once, there was thematically coherent reason to actually do this.&nbsp; ...Even for a Robertian, whose reign is of no less moment to the peroiod than the late Carolingians&#039;.</p><p>...Um, mostly as a prototype for this example of the increasingly Robertian /proto-Capetian Hugo Magnus, as Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris, 923-956.[ATTACH=full]1389141[/ATTACH]</p><p>...Found unattributed on Delcampe; maybe 23 Euros before shipping.&nbsp; You could compare it to this example, from CNG:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3595215" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3595215" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3595215</a></p><p>(A couple more examples:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?similar=6701440" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?similar=6701440" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?similar=6701440</a> .)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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