Livre–sou–denier accounting
Pound–sou–denier structure; not a modern national French currency.
Currency profiles
Evidence & research notes 5 claims
Imported lsd: accounting system. Dated evidence is not proof of an uninterrupted lifetime.
Monnaie de Paris describes Carolingian accounting as one pound, twenty sous, or 240 deniers.
PDF p. 2, circa 770–790 entry
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Exhibition overview contains simplifications and errors outside selected claims, including Joachimsthal 1486.
Not a universal chronology authority; gros dating checked against object catalogue.
Berlin describes the Carolingian silver denier, a twelve-denier account solidus, and the 793/794 reform.
Charlemagne background
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Treviso specimen evidences empire-wide context, not a French mint.
No invariant gram conversion inferred for the Carolingian pound.
Livre preserves the Latin pound name, libra. An inherited name does not preserve a constant metal weight.
Named short source page; relevant history/definition passage as reported in the handoff.
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Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
The accounting structure is 1 livre = 20 sous = 240 deniers. Livre and sou here are account units; this is not a basket of three necessarily minted coins.
Named short source page; relevant history/definition passage as reported in the handoff.
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Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
Named short source page; relevant history/definition passage as reported in the handoff.
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Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
Franc handoff v2 reports: Publisher summary inspected; full chapter not inspected; not independently reopened in this merge.
Tournois is the Tours-derived variant of the livre–sou–denier system. No claim that metal content stayed fixed from the Carolingian period.
Named short source page; relevant history/definition passage as reported in the handoff.
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Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
p.136; DOI 10.3406/ccmed.1970.1852
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Older scholarly synthesis; adopt bounded royal-adoption and relative-value claims, not approximate metallic reconstructions.