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Denier - Lothair I Metz mint, temple
| Issuer | Middle Francia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 840-850 |
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| Weight | 1.23 g |
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| Reverse lettering | MEDIOMΛTRICORV (Translation: Metz.) |
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| Mint | Metz |
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Lothair I received the Middle Frankish kingdom following the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which fractured Charlemagne's empire among three grandsons after years of civil war. The Metz mint had been active under Carolingian authority well before the partition, and its output under Lothair reflects the administrative continuity his chancellery worked hard to project despite the political rupture. The temple-type denier is among the more precisely catalogued of his issues, appearing across Morrison, Gariel, and Prou with enough cross-reference to anchor attribution firmly to the Metz workshop.