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Denier - Charles II Condé-sur-l'Escaut mint
| Issuer | Lotharingia |
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| Year | 869-875 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ GRΛTIΛ D-I REX (Translation: Charles, king by God`s grace.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles II — "the Bald" — received Lotharingia by the Treaty of Mersen in 870, carved from the middle kingdom after his nephew Lothair II died without legitimate heirs. The Condé-sur-l'Escaut mint, situated on a contested frontier between West Frankish and East Frankish ambitions, operated under that persistent territorial pressure. Louis the German challenged the partition almost immediately, and the mint's window of operation under Charles was correspondingly narrow.
The multiple reference concordances — Prou, Gariel, Morrison — reflect how heavily this type has been studied relative to surviving examples.