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Denier - Charles II Bergues mint
| Issuer | West Francia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 840-864 |
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| Currency | Pound (840-987) |
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| Obverse description | A plain cross with two pellets in each quarter occupies the central field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. A Latin royal legend encircles the design in the outer field, reading clockwise from a cross pattée initial mark. The flan is irregular and moderately broad, typical of Carolingian hammered silver coinage, with the lettering partially legible due to wear and flan imperfections. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles II — Charles the Bald — inherited the western portion of the Carolingian empire following the Treaty of Verdun in 843, and the subsequent decades saw intense pressure on royal minting authority as local magnates and ecclesiastical institutions asserted control over coin production. Bergues, in present-day northern France near Dunkirk, was a minor mint whose output was modest enough that no Morrison or Gariel reference number has been assigned to this specific type — a telling indicator of rarity in the scholarly record.
Prou 226c places this squarely among the less-documented peripheral issues of the reign.