IDENTIFIERS
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id:	199635
accession number:	CM.521-1998

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 21 July 2014
updated:	Thursday 13 September 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cut-quarter of a gold solidus. Only some 15 official solidi of Louis are known, compared with some 80 imitations.  The importance of this carefully divided quarter-coin is as evidence for the acceptance of solidi by tale rather than as mere bullion in the 9th century.
title:	quarter solidus

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Ex Spink sale 14 July 1998, lot 270 (not sold); found near Louth, Lincs, November 1996.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/199635





CATEGORIES
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category: coin

DATING
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creation date:	816 - 819
creation date earliest:	816
creation date latest:	819

CREATORS
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maker: Louis the Pious (814-840)
maker: Unspecified


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Building an Empire: Money, trade and power in the age of Charlemagne
CITATIONS
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Medieval European Coinage: With a catalogue of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 1. The Early Middle Ages (5th - 10th centuries)
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