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Denier - Charles III monastery of Saint Dionysius
| Issuer | West Francia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 898-923 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a two-line inscription in the field, arranged horizontally and separated by beaded lines above and below. Two groups of three pellets, each arranged in a triangular formation, flank the central inscription at the upper and lower registers, serving as decorative punctuation devices. The overall composition is characteristic of monastic mint issues of the Carolingian period, associating the coinage with the Abbey of Saint-Denis. |
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Charles III — "the Simple" — came to power in circumstances that required aggressive coalition-building with ecclesiastical institutions. The monastery of Saint-Denis had been a Carolingian royal foundation since the seventh century, and the right to strike coin in its name was both a fiscal privilege and a political signal. These deniers circulated in the Île-de-France at a moment when Carolingian royal authority was being actively contested by the Robertian dynasty, whose own territorial grip on the region made every assertion of Charles's legitimacy consequential.
The multiple catalog references here — Prou, Gariel, Morrison, PA — reflect decades of scholarly disagreement over precise attribution within the Saint-Denis series.