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Denier - Pepin the Short Soissons mint
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 751-768 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded border, the abbreviated royal title is rendered in large, boldly struck Latin letters occupying the central field, surmounted by a horizontal bar denoting the abbreviation. The monogrammatic legend RX F, standing for Rex Francorum (King of the Franks), is displayed in a primitive yet assertive early Carolingian script characteristic of the Pepin the Short coinage. The overall style reflects the transitional nature of the early Carolingian monetary reform, with irregular flan and uneven relief typical of hand-hammered silver deniers of the mid-8th century. |
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| Obverse lettering | Rx F (Translation: King of the Franks.) |
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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 backing — a transaction that fundamentally restructured the relationship between the Church and secular power in Western Europe. His monetary reform, launched around 755, increased the weight standard of the denier and reduced the number of authorized mints, bringing coinage under tighter royal control than the Franks had exercised in generations. Soissons was among the retained mints, its output documented across the Gariel and Morrison corpora with enough die variation to suggest sustained production across the reign.