Catalog
Denier - Pepin the Short Angers mint
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 751-768 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing the Angers mint monogram ANDE (Andecavis), composed of interlaced letters rendered in high relief, with a cross or star-like symbol to the left and a row of pellets arranged in an arc to the right and upper field. The whole is enclosed within a beaded border. The design is characteristic of the early Carolingian hammered denier coinage, with the mint name rendered as a Carolingian monogram rather than a written legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pépin III seized the Frankish throne in 751 with papal backing — Boniface of Mainz performed the anointing, the first such ceremony in Frankish history — deposing the last Merovingian, Childeric III, who was tonsured and sent to a monastery. These deniers are the earliest coins of the Carolingian dynasty proper, and the Angers mint was among a small number of authorized centers during Pépin's reign. The transition from Merovingian to Carolingian monetary practice was neither clean nor immediate; many early issues blend older local conventions with the new royal authority.