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Denier - Pepin the Short Besancon mint
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 751-768 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse lettering | Rx.F (Translation: King of the Franks.) |
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| Mintage | ND (751-768) |
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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 sent to a monastery. The Besançon mint operated under Pépin's currency reforms, which attempted to standardize silver coinage across a fragmented monetary inheritance left by the late Merovingian period. That reform effort would be completed more ruthlessly by his son Charlemagne, but the groundwork — heavier, more consistently struck deniers — begins here.
The absence of a Prou catalog number signals how poorly documented this specific type remains in the foundational literature.