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Denier - Louis II and Angelberga monogram
| Issuer | Benevento |
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| Year | 866-871 |
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| Value | 1 Denier = 1⁄12 Solidus |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Louis II, King of Italy and Emperor of the West, held Benevento intermittently through military campaigning against Arab raiders threatening southern Italy. His empress Angelberga — unusually prominent in imperial administration — appears here as a co-issuing authority, a distinction almost without parallel in Carolingian coinage. The pairing reflects Louis's deliberate effort to assert imperial legitimacy over a Lombard principality that had long resisted Frankish control, particularly after he retook the city from the Arabs in 871, the final year this type was struck.