Currency history
Livre parisis
Livre parisis: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Roman solidus
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Where this money came from
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DocumentedQualified
Predecessor
Frankish denier–livre reckoningEvidence period: AD 794–1204QualifiedA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
This currency
Livre parisisNo successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
Royal tournois adoption coexists with the parisis system. Parallel systems; this edge is neither descent nor a fixed-rate conversion. [1]
Parisis can likewise be treated as a qualified regional descendant of Frankish reckoning. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Jean Lafaurie, 1970, pp. 117–137 · Numismatique. Des Carolingiens aux Capétiens C726 ↗
- Jean Lafaurie, 1970, pp. 117–137 · Numismatique. Des Carolingiens aux Capétiens; Alessia Rovelli, in Rory Naismith (ed.), Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages (2018), pp. 63–92 · From the Fall of Rome to Charlemagne (c.400–800) C1033 ↗
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“Livre parisis.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000815.html