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Denier - Pepin the Short Noyon mint
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 751-768 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | NO VINO MO (Translation: Noyon.) |
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Pépin III seized the Frankish throne in 751 after engineering the deposition of the last Merovingian king, Childeric III, with papal blessing from Zachary — a transaction that fundamentally reoriented the relationship between Rome and the Frankish crown. His monetary reforms were equally deliberate: he standardized the denier at a heavier weight than his predecessors, effectively wresting control of silver coinage away from the independent ecclesiastical and aristocratic moneyers who had fragmented Merovingian currency into near-chaos. The Noyon attribution places this piece in a diocese that had long been a Frankish administrative stronghold.