Solidus - Charlemagne Uzès

Features

Issuer	Unified Carolingian Empire
Król	Charlemagne (Karolus) (768-814)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	771-793
Value	1 Solidus (1⁄20)
Currency	Pound (751-843)
Composition	Złoto
Weight	2.52 g
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 342197
References	Prou Car# 826 bis Maurice Prou; 1896. Les monnaies carolingiennes. Rollin & Feuardent, Paris, France. , MEC I# 734 Philip Grierson, Mark Blackburn; 2007. Medieval European Coinage / Volume 1: The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th Centuries): With a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. , Gariel Car# XI/140 Ernest Gariel. Les Monnaies Royales de France sous la race Carolingienne. Imprimerie Typographique de G. Fischbach, Strasbourg, France (2 volumes). , Depeyr Car# 1097 Georges Depeyrot. Le numéraire carolingien (3 volumes).

Obverse

(en) Monogram KRLS with cross and pellets inits quarter in the center.

Script: łaciński

Lettering: KRLS

Reverse

Legenda w dwóch wierszach oddzielonych linią. Automatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
VCE
CIA

Mint

Uzès, Francja

Comments

(en) These Solidi were, according to Grierson, to have a ceremonial and not a monetary role, in particular because of the very variable weight of the rare coins that have come down to us.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (771-793)

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