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Denier - Charles II Mayenne mint
| Issuer | Royal Mint of the West Frankish Kingdom (Charles II the Bald) |
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| Year | 864-875 |
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| Currency | Pound (840-987) |
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| Obverse description | Central monogram of KAROLUS arranged in a cruciform ligature within a beaded inner circle, the interlaced letters forming the characteristic Carolingian royal cipher. The field surrounding the monogram is plain. A circular Latin legend runs along the periphery, interrupted by a cross pattee at the commencement, reading GRATIA D-I REX, invoking the divine right of Charles as king. The overall design is typical of the Edict of Pîtres reform coinage, with bold, deeply struck letterforms characteristic of Carolingian hammered silver. |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ GRΛTIΛ D-I REX (Translation: Charles, king by God`s grace.) |
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Charles II's Edict of Pîtres in 864 fundamentally restructured Carolingian coinage, reducing the number of authorized mints to a controlled royal list and standardizing the denier across the realm. Mayenne was among the mints confirmed under this reorganization. The reform was partly a response to Viking incursions disrupting trade networks — the same raids that would, within two generations, carve Normandy out of the kingdom entirely.
The Prou and Gariel references place this firmly within the post-Pîtres emission sequence.