weight 1,46gr. | silver Ø 19mm.
obv. Karlogram within circle.
In outer circle the legend ✠ CRΛTIΛ D I REX
rev. Short cross within circle.
In outer circle the legend ✠ SVESSIO CIVITΛS
Soissons enters written history under its Celtic name, later borrowed into Latin, Noviodunum, meaning "new hillfort", which was the capital of the Suessiones. At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by Julius Caesar. In 57 BC Caesar, after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), entered the territory of the Suessiones, and making one day′s long march, reached Noviodunum, which was surrounded by a high wall and a broad ditch. The place surrendered to Caesar. From 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the Kingdom of Soissons, until it fell to the Frankish king Clovis I in 486 after the Battle of Soissons.
Part of the Frankish territory of Neustria, the Soissons region, and the Abbey of Saint-Médard, founded in the sixth century, played an important political part during the rule of the Merovingian dynasty (447–751). After the death of Clovis I in 511, Soissons was made the capital of one of the four kingdoms into which his states were divided. As a tribute to Clovis and his descendants, his symbol the fleur de lys (which became a symbol France and of the monarchy) continues to be symbol of the city of Soissons. Eventually, the kingdom of Soissons disappeared in 613 when the Frankish lands were amalgamated under Chlothar II. The 744 Council of Soissons met at the instigation of Pepin the Short and Saint Boniface, the Pope′s missionary to pagan Germany, secured the condemnation of the Frankish bishop Adalbert and the missionary Clement of Ireland.
Morrison-Grunthal 805 | Prou 278 | MEC I, 901
Gariel XXXV, 248 | Depeyrot 937
Some minor weakness of strike. Attractive toning.
vf/xf
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