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Denier - Charlemagne Lyon mint, monogram
| Issuer | Carolingian Royal Mint |
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| Year | 793-812 |
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| Currency | Pound (751-843) |
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| Obverse description | A plain Greek cross with splayed arms occupies the central field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend, rendered in bold, somewhat irregular Carolingian capital letters, reads clockwise from a cross pattee initial mark. The die-cutting is characteristic of the late 8th- to early 9th-century Frankish hammered tradition, with letters of varying depth and slight irregularity consistent with hand-engraved dies. The coin's flan is slightly irregular in outline, typical of Carolingian silver deniers of this reformed coinage series introduced under Charlemagne's monetary reform of 793–794. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (793-812) |
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