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Denier - Charlemagne Dinant, DEOTNAN
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 771-793 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The mint toponym DEOTNAN, representing Dinant, is inscribed in two lines across the field, reading DEO in the upper register and TNAN in the lower register, the two lines separated by a horizontal bar or double rule dividing the field. Three pellets appear in the lower field beneath the second line of text. The lettering is rendered in bold, deeply struck capital letters consistent with early Carolingian monogram-style epigraphy. The design is enclosed within a beaded outer border. |
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Dinant, on the Meuse, operated as a mint under Charlemagne during the first phase of his monetary reform — before the heavier, broader flan penny that the 793–794 reform would mandate. This piece belongs to that transitional generation of Carolingian silver, struck while Charlemagne was still consolidating Frankish authority after the death of his brother Carloman in 771 handed him sole rule. The DEOTNAN legend is a contracted form of Dinant, a naming convention consistent across the pre-reform issues catalogued by Morrison and Gariel.