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Solidus Imitation of Louis the Pious, pseudo legend
| Issuer | Frisia |
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| Year | 830-900 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Draped and diademed bust of the emperor facing right, rendered in a debased but recognizable Carolingian style. The effigy displays a prominent diadem with dangling pendilia, and the drapery is indicated by horizontal striations across the truncation. Surrounding the bust is a pseudo-legend composed of meaningless letterforms imitating the Carolingian inscription of Louis the Pious, arranged in the outer field along the periphery of the irregularly shaped flan. The overall execution reflects the work of a non-official Frisian die-cutter copying an imperial prototype without full literacy. |
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| Reverse description | A plain cross occupies the central field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with radial lines or pseudo-legend characters filling the space between the inner circle and the coin's periphery, imitating a formal Carolingian reverse inscription. The cross arms are broad and relatively uniform, consistent with the simplified die-cutting style of Frisian imitative coinage. The outer border features a continuous series of debased letterforms that are largely illegible, confirming the pseudo-legend character of the issue. The overall design closely mirrors the reverse type of authentic Louis the Pious solidi while betraying its non-imperial, peripheral origin through the quality of execution. |
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| Mintage | ND (830-900) |
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