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Denier - Charles II Bayeux mint
| Issuer | West Francia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 864-875 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ HBΛIOCΛS CIVITΛS (Translation: City of Bayeux.) |
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| Mintage | ND (864-875) - (fr) Nouchy #94A: BΛIOCΛ MS CIVITΛS - ND (864-875) - (fr) Nouchy #94B: BΛIOCΛS M CIVITΛS - ND (864-875) - (fr) Nouchy #94C: HBΛIOCΛS CIVITΛS - ND (864-875) - (fr) Nouchy #94D: IBΛIOCΛS CITΛS - ND (864-875) - (fr) Nouchy #94E: IBΛIOCΛS CIVTS - |
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The Edict of Pîtres, issued by Charles II in June 864, fundamentally reorganized Carolingian coinage — restricting minting to a small number of authorized royal workshops and making all previous coin types illegal tender. Bayeux was among the mints confirmed under this reorganization, placing this denier squarely within one of the most deliberate monetary centralizations of the early medieval period. The reform was driven partly by the proliferation of debased imitations and partly by the need to fund increasingly desperate payments to Viking raiders operating along the Seine and into Neustria.