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Denier - Milo
| Issuer | Narbonne, County of |
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| Year | 759-791 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A hooked or angled cross — its arms bearing inward-curving terminals — divides the field into four quarters, each containing one letter of the mint name: N, R, B, and O reading clockwise from the upper left. The angular, somewhat irregular letterforms reflect the hand-engraved Carolingian workshop tradition, and the design is framed by a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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Narbonne was under Saracen control from 719 until 759, when its Visigothic inhabitants negotiated the city's surrender to Pippin III in exchange for their laws and property rights. The resumption of Frankish-authorized coinage at Narbonne almost immediately after that handover situates this denier squarely at a political inflection point — the city re-entering the Carolingian monetary network after four decades of Islamic rule.
The attribution to the comital authority of Milo places this among the earlier documented local Carolingian issues from the region before stricter royal mint controls were imposed under Charlemagne.