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Denier - Pepin the Short
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 751-768 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄264) |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered silver flan of irregular, slightly trapezoidal form. The obverse field bears the monogram 'RP' (Rex Pippinus) rendered in bold, deeply incuse strokes characteristic of early Carolingian die-cutting. The letters are large relative to the flan, occupying nearly the entire field, with no border or legend framing the design. The surface exhibits typical wear and die-rust consistent with eighth-century hammered coinage, and the flan edge is ragged and uneven. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Pépin le Bref struck these deniers following his deposition of Childeric III in 751 — the coup legitimized by papal sanction, which made Pépin the first Carolingian king and rendered his coinage the first to carry genuine royal Frankish authority rather than the ghost-authority of a Merovingian figurehead. The monetary reform he initiated, standardizing the denier as the foundation of Frankish silver currency, was later formalized under his son Charlemagne but the groundwork was entirely Pépin's.
Morrison's classification remains the primary reference; the absence of Prou and Gariel numbers reflects how poorly documented individual dies are for this reign.