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Denier - Louis I Rennes
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 819-822 |
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| Currency | Pound (751-843) |
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| Reverse lettering | REDO NIS (Translation: Rennes.) |
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| Mint | Rennes |
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This denier belongs to the monetary reform Louis the Pious implemented following the Council of Aachen in 816–817, which standardized weights and types across the Carolingian mints. Rennes, as a frontier mint serving Brittany — never fully pacified under Carolingian rule — was granted striking rights partly as a tool of political integration. The brief dating window reflects Louis's shifting administrative reorganizations of the Breton march during precisely this period.