Pépin III's monetary reform of 755 — confirmed at the Council of Vernon — abolished the Merovingian gold tremissis system and standardized the silver denier as the fundamental unit of Frankish commerce, a structural change that would anchor European monetary practice for the next four centuries. Clermont-Ferrand, then known as Augustonemetum, operated as a regional mint under episcopal supervision, its output serving the Auvergne rather than the royal heartland.
The absence of a Prou reference is telling: Prou's 1896 corpus systematically underrepresented peripheral Carolingian mints, leaving Clermont issues to later scholarship.
Pépin III's monetary reform of 755 — confirmed at the Council of Vernon — abolished the Merovingian gold tremissis system and standardized the silver denier as the fundamental unit of Frankish commerce, a structural change that would anchor European monetary practice for the next four centuries. Clermont-Ferrand, then known as Augustonemetum, operated as a regional mint under episcopal supervision, its output serving the Auvergne rather than the royal heartland.
The absence of a Prou reference is telling: Prou's 1896 corpus systematically underrepresented peripheral Carolingian mints, leaving Clermont issues to later scholarship.