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Denier - Louis II Zurich
| Issuer | Kingdom of East Francia (Carolingian Empire) |
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| Year | 843-864 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | LVDOVVICVS REX (Translation: King Louis.) |
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Louis II became king of East Francia under the Treaty of Verdun in 843, which split Charlemagne's empire among his three grandsons — a partition that permanently fractured Carolingian unity. The Zurich mint was one of several ecclesiastical and royal minting centers operating in the eastern kingdom during his reign, though its output was modest compared to the great Rhenish mints at Mainz and Trier. Morrison's corpus remains the essential reference for sorting the often frustratingly similar deniers of this period by mint attribution.