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Obol - Louis I Lucca
| Issuer | Unified Carolingian Empire |
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| Year | 814-819 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Draped laureate bust of Emperor Louis I facing right, rendered in the Carolingian portrait tradition. The emperor's head is encircled by a laurel wreath, with visible drapery at the shoulder. The surrounding legend reads HLVDOVVICVS IMP, distributed around the periphery of the flan. The die work is characteristic of early 9th-century Carolingian hammered coinage, with bold if somewhat stylized facial features. The flan is irregular in shape, as typical of hammered issues of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | HLVDOVVICVS IMP (Translation: Emperor Louis.) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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