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CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20.5mm, 1.31 g, 2h). Class 3. Unspecified mint. Struck 822/3-840. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / XPISTIANA RELIGIO
, temple façade. Coupland, Money –; Depeyrot 1179; M&G 472; cf. MEC 1, 809 (obol). Light cleaning marks. VF.
From the Simon Coupland Collection.
This coin is a single find from the region of Saumur in France in 1960. It belongs to a sizeable group of Christiana religio coins which are beautfiully executed, with very neat lettering, and a temple cross which has the appearance of a fifth, central column. It has been suggested that the group may have been minted in Melle, and this coin was illustrated in the article putting forward that theory (M. Bompaire and G. Sarah (ed.), Mine, métal, monnaie, Melle. Les voies de la quantification de l'histoire monétaire du haut Moyen Âge, Geneva 2018, p. 277, Fig. 21). However, that attribution is now seen as less likely. [S. Coupland]
, temple façade. Coupland, Money –; Depeyrot 1179; M&G 472; cf. MEC 1, 809 (obol). Light cleaning marks. VF.
From the Simon Coupland Collection.
This coin is a single find from the region of Saumur in France in 1960. It belongs to a sizeable group of Christiana religio coins which are beautfiully executed, with very neat lettering, and a temple cross which has the appearance of a fifth, central column. It has been suggested that the group may have been minted in Melle, and this coin was illustrated in the article putting forward that theory (M. Bompaire and G. Sarah (ed.), Mine, métal, monnaie, Melle. Les voies de la quantification de l'histoire monétaire du haut Moyen Âge, Geneva 2018, p. 277, Fig. 21). However, that attribution is now seen as less likely. [S. Coupland]