Denier (coin)

Denier from the time of Charlemagne , recognizable on the right by the Charlemagne monogram in the middle

The smallest (silver) coin based on the French arithmetic pound, the livre , is called denier (borrowed from the Latin denomination of the coin denarius ) .

Twelve deniers make one sou , 20 sous make one livery , so that 240 deniers make one livery . The denier corresponds to the penny of the English and the penny of the German arithmetic pound system. Like the French denier coin, both go back to the Carolingian coin system introduced by Charlemagne with its basic unit, the Karl pound .

The last French deniers tournois , already containing a lot of copper , were minted in Tours in 1649.

literature

• A. Blanchet / A. Dieudonné: Manuel de Numismatique francaise , 4 volumes, Paris 1912 digitized from Gallica , 1916 digitized from Gallica , 1930 digitalized from Gallica , 1936 digitalized from Gallica
• F. Braudel: Social history of the 15th - 18th century. Everyday life , Verlag Kindler, Munich 1985, p. 508, ISBN 3-463-40025-1

Web links

Commons : Denier  album with pictures, videos and audio files