Denier - Pepin the Short

Descrizione del dritto	Monogram field displaying the letters R and P in bold relief, representing the royal monogram of Rex Pipinus (King Pepin), separated by a central pellet. The letters are rendered in a bold, angular Carolingian style with a diagonal stroke connecting them. A horizontal bar appears above the monogram, and a row of pellets decorates the lower border, all enclosed within a plain inner border characteristic of early Carolingian coinage.
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Descrizione del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Scrittura del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
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Zecca	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Tiratura	ND (751-768)
Informazioni aggiuntive	Pépin III deposed the last Merovingian king, Childeric III, in 751 with papal blessing — a transaction that reshaped both the Frankish throne and the relationship between Rome and the northern kingdoms for generations. His monetary reform, carried out around 755, abandoned the Merovingian tremissis tradition and established a heavier silver denier as the dominant Frankish denomination, a structural shift that would anchor European coinage for the next four centuries. The reform explicitly tied coin weight to the pound, mandating 22 deniers per ounce — a ratio Charlemagne would later revise downward to 20.