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Denier - Pepin the Short Arles mint
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 751-768 |
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| Weight | 1.08 g |
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| Obverse lettering | :Rx⸱F⸱ (Translation: King of the Franks.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pépin III seized the Frankish throne in 751 with papal blessing — the first Carolingian king, having deposed the last Merovingian, Childeric III, who was tonsured and packed off to a monastery. The Arles mint was an inheritance from that older dynasty, one of several southern workshops Pépin absorbed and kept operational as he consolidated control over a fractious kingdom. These early Carolingian deniers from Arles are poorly documented precisely because the administrative machinery of the new dynasty was still being assembled; the absence of a Prou Carolingien reference number reflects how irregularly this mint's output fits the broader typological framework.