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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4852435, member: 110504"](I posted stuff about this already in one of LordMorcovan's justly celebrated giveaway threads, but now I can't even find it.)</p><p>Not That long ago, I saw a, shall we say, underattributed denier on French ebay. Nabbed it.</p><p>Denier of Bayeux, anon. c. (?) mid-late 10th c.; immobilized from later (...and very common) 'GDR' issues of Charles II, le Chauve /the Bald. The pics, from the original listing, start with the reverse; I'm running with it.</p><p>Rev. +IAIOCASH CITAS. ([Blundered Medieval Latin for 'Bayeux'] civitas.)</p><p>Obv. 'KAROLVS' monogram;</p><p>(From 10 o'clock: ) +CPATIA D-I REX. [Blundered version of 'GRATIA D-I REX'; Gratia Dei Rex.]</p><p>I'm not as good at this as other people, but this <i>might</i> be a die match of Dumas, <u>Le Tresor de Fecamp</u>, no. 6047 (pp. 104-5 and pl. VI). See also Moesgaard's article, "A Survey of Coin Production and Currency in Normandy, 864-945," in Graham-Campbell et al., eds., <u>Silver Economy in the Viking Age</u> (2007), 99-121, esp. pp. 104-5 and Fig. 6.3.) It's very light, and viscerally crappier silver than you'd expect from an official Carolingian issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171442[/ATTACH]</p><p>After that, I 'had' to find an example of the Carolingian prototype. That took some old-fashioned good luck.</p><p>Denier of Charles II /the Bald (grandson of Charlemagne) as king of (West/) Francia; post-Edict of Pitres / 'GDR' issue, c. 864-875.[ATTACH=full]1171469[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1171471[/ATTACH]</p><p>Rev. Cross; +HBAIOCAS CIVITAS. (Right, especially for place names, the Medieval Latin orthography can be a hoot. Sit back, and enjoy the ride....)</p><p>Obv. 'KAROLVS' monogram. [From 9 o'clock:] +GRATIA.D-I.REX.</p><p>Back ...yeah, kind of inexorably... to the Norman immobilization, available evidence seems to suggest that it's no later than the reign (sorry, comital, not ducal) of Richard I (942-996), but with <i>origins</i> predating the issues of Rouen in his own name. (...And later; after all --drum-roll, please-- it's an immobilization.) Dunbabin, <u>France in the Making: 843-1180</u> (1985, with one second edition; <i>Find</i> it!!) makes a prescient numismatic reference to this, with resonant historical context (pp. 80-1). Among other academic historians, Bates notes Bayeux as the second and much less active of the first two Norman mints. (<u>Normandy Before 1066</u>, pp. 128-9.)</p><p>It's fun to see how this anticipates the first, no less <i>ad hoc</i> minting efforts of the Normans in Apulia and Calabria, a century and change later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4852435, member: 110504"](I posted stuff about this already in one of LordMorcovan's justly celebrated giveaway threads, but now I can't even find it.) Not That long ago, I saw a, shall we say, underattributed denier on French ebay. Nabbed it. Denier of Bayeux, anon. c. (?) mid-late 10th c.; immobilized from later (...and very common) 'GDR' issues of Charles II, le Chauve /the Bald. The pics, from the original listing, start with the reverse; I'm running with it. Rev. +IAIOCASH CITAS. ([Blundered Medieval Latin for 'Bayeux'] civitas.) Obv. 'KAROLVS' monogram; (From 10 o'clock: ) +CPATIA D-I REX. [Blundered version of 'GRATIA D-I REX'; Gratia Dei Rex.] I'm not as good at this as other people, but this [I]might[/I] be a die match of Dumas, [U]Le Tresor de Fecamp[/U], no. 6047 (pp. 104-5 and pl. VI). See also Moesgaard's article, "A Survey of Coin Production and Currency in Normandy, 864-945," in Graham-Campbell et al., eds., [U]Silver Economy in the Viking Age[/U] (2007), 99-121, esp. pp. 104-5 and Fig. 6.3.) It's very light, and viscerally crappier silver than you'd expect from an official Carolingian issue. [ATTACH=full]1171442[/ATTACH] After that, I 'had' to find an example of the Carolingian prototype. That took some old-fashioned good luck. Denier of Charles II /the Bald (grandson of Charlemagne) as king of (West/) Francia; post-Edict of Pitres / 'GDR' issue, c. 864-875.[ATTACH=full]1171469[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1171471[/ATTACH] Rev. Cross; +HBAIOCAS CIVITAS. (Right, especially for place names, the Medieval Latin orthography can be a hoot. Sit back, and enjoy the ride....) Obv. 'KAROLVS' monogram. [From 9 o'clock:] +GRATIA.D-I.REX. Back ...yeah, kind of inexorably... to the Norman immobilization, available evidence seems to suggest that it's no later than the reign (sorry, comital, not ducal) of Richard I (942-996), but with [I]origins[/I] predating the issues of Rouen in his own name. (...And later; after all --drum-roll, please-- it's an immobilization.) Dunbabin, [U]France in the Making: 843-1180[/U] (1985, with one second edition; [I]Find[/I] it!!) makes a prescient numismatic reference to this, with resonant historical context (pp. 80-1). Among other academic historians, Bates notes Bayeux as the second and much less active of the first two Norman mints. ([U]Normandy Before 1066[/U], pp. 128-9.) It's fun to see how this anticipates the first, no less [I]ad hoc[/I] minting efforts of the Normans in Apulia and Calabria, a century and change later.[/QUOTE]
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