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| 表面の説明 | Hammered silver denier struck under Pepin the Short, bearing the royal name in large, bold Carolingian letterforms arranged across the field in two registers. The legend PIPINVS is rendered in majuscule Latin script, with the letters occupying most of the flan in a characteristic early Carolingian monogram-like disposition. Three pellets are visible in the central field, serving as decorative separators between the upper and lower rows of letters. The style is archaic and calligraphic, typical of the earliest Frankish royal coinage, with irregular flan edges reflecting hand-hammered production. No portrait or figurative device is present, the design relying entirely on the royal name as the primary identifying element. |
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| 表面の銘文 | PIPINYS (Translation: Pepin.) |
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Pépin III's monetary reform — typically dated to around 755 — broke from Merovingian tradition by standardizing the denier as the primary silver unit and bringing minting under royal rather than episcopal or aristocratic control. It was one of the earliest systematic attempts at monetary centralization in post-Roman Western Europe, and it laid the administrative groundwork that Charlemagne would later expand into a empire-wide system.
The Prou reference gap is telling: these early Carolingian pieces remain poorly systematized in the major catalogues, and attribution between mints is frequently contested.