Denier - Pepin the Short Noyon mint

正面描述	Central field dominated by two large majuscule letters R and P in bold, primitive Carolingian script, the monogram abbreviating REX PIPPINUS (King Pepin). The letters are rendered in high relief against a plain field, with the vertical stroke of the P sharing the upright of the R. A partial beaded border runs along the upper and left periphery of the irregularly shaped flan, characteristic of early Carolingian hammered coinage. The die work is rudimentary, reflecting the transitional monetary workshop practices of the mid-eighth century.
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边缘	Plain
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附加信息	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.

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