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Denier - Pepin the Short Saint Gaugericus abbey of Cambrai
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 751-768 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Abbreviated votive legend in large, boldly struck capital letters occupying the central field, reading SCI GAV in reference to Saint Gaugericus, patron of the abbey of Cambrai. A horizontal bar appears above the inscription, mirroring the obverse design convention. The legend fills the flan with a border of pellets around the periphery, consistent with the hammered fabric of Carolingian ecclesiastical deniers. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pépin le Bref inherited a degraded Merovingian coinage and systematically overhauled it, replacing the gold tremissis with a heavier silver denier as the backbone of Frankish commerce — a reform formalized around 755 and enforced through royal monopoly over minting. Cambrai's issue draws authority from Saint Gaugericus, the seventh-century bishop who effectively founded the city as an episcopal center, his cult providing the ecclesiastical legitimacy that justified a local striking operation under royal sanction.
The Nouchy reference places this among a small, well-documented group. Gariel and Morrison both catalogue it; its absence from Prou is a known gap in that corpus rather than a reflection of rarity.