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Denier - Hugh of Arles and Lothair II Milan mint
| Issuer | Italy, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 931-947 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a Carolingian-style royal monogram composed of the interlaced letters H and L (for Hugo et Lotharius), enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The monogram is boldly rendered in the crude hammered style typical of 10th-century Italian royal coinage. A circular legend surrounds the inner circle, separated by small crosses at intervals. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the edges, consistent with hand-struck medieval silver coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | + VGO IOTAIIO IES (Translation: Hugh and Lothair, kings.) |
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Hugh of Arles seized the Italian crown in 926 after being invited south by a faction of magnates tired of Berengar I's successors. His co-regency coinage with his son Lothair II — struck at Milan between 931 and 947 — reflects a calculated legitimizing strategy: associating his Provençal dynasty with an Italian-born heir to blunt accusations of foreign rule. The Milan mint was among the most active in the regnum Italiae, and this denier belongs to a transitional moment before Ottonian intervention permanently reorganized northern Italian monetary administration.