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Denier - Lothair I Temple, Christian legend
| Issuer | Middle Francia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 840-850 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears a plain cross pattée with a single pellet in each of the four quarters, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The imperial legend runs clockwise in Latin capital letters around the periphery between the beaded circle and the toothed outer rim, invoking the title of Emperor. The overall design is characteristic of the Carolingian cross-and-pellets type, struck in the hammered tradition with an irregular, slightly concave flan typical of ninth-century Frankish coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | ☩ HLOTHARIVS IMP (Translation: Lothair, Emperor.) |
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Lothair I inherited Middle Francia following the fratricidal wars that tore apart the Carolingian empire after Louis the Pious's death in 840, with the Treaty of Verdun in 843 formally partitioning what Charlemagne had unified. This denier type belongs to the transitional monetary moment when Lothair was asserting independent imperial authority over his territory, a claim that carried as much weight in silver as it did in politics. The temple reverse with Christian legend drew directly from earlier Carolingian ecclesiastical coinage conventions, positioning Lothair within a legitimizing religious framework at a time when his right to rule was anything but settled.