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Denier - Arnulf and Berengar I Milan mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Italy |
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| Year | 898-899 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a Carolingian-style temple or church facade motif — a triangular pediment above three horizontal lines — set within a raised inner circle, itself enclosed by a beaded border. The surrounding legend MEDI BERENCARIVS RIX runs between the inner and outer beaded borders, reading 'Milan. King Berengar.' The flan is heavily corroded and fragmentary at the edges, with the reverse die struck in typical irregular hammered fashion of late 9th-century Italian deniers. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This denier belongs to a peculiar interregnum — 898 to 899 — when Arnulf of Carinthia and Berengar I effectively shared dominion over the Kingdom of Italy in an uneasy and short-lived arrangement following Arnulf's imperial coronation in Rome in February 896. Arnulf suffered a debilitating stroke shortly after and retreated north, leaving Berengar to consolidate control. The joint attribution on Milan's coinage reflects political reality on the ground: neither ruler had clean, unchallenged authority.
Arnulf died in December 899, collapsing the arrangement entirely. The Milan mint's output from this window is narrow, making the Morrison 1537 type one of the briefer-documented issues in the CNI V sequence.