Denier - Charlemagne Dinant, DEOTNAN

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.