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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 2686124, member: 44210&quot;]Can&#039;t say exactly if this is my best but its definitely up there in my favorites that are of &lt;$200. It cost me around $150 and on top of that it is a rare reverse variety, with the city name around the cross instead of it being set up as two lines of text on top of each other in the field. Philip Grierson in Medieval European Coinage V.1 speculates that &quot;[its] most likely explanation is an initial misunderstanding of a mint instruction prescribing the type, perhaps the ambiguity of some phrase like <i>nomen nostrum habeatur in gyro et in medio crux, in altera parte nomen civitatis&quot;.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Louis the Pious</u>, Carolingian Empire </b></p><p>AR denier</p><p><b>Obv</b>: + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, legend around cross in circle</p><p><b>Rev</b>: + METALLVM, legend around cross in circle</p><p><b>Mint</b>: Metallum</p><p><b>Date</b>: 816-819 AD</p><p><b>Ref</b>: MEC 762</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/ldenier_zps1d2080f7-jpg.570749/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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