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Frankish denier–livre reckoning: research record

Evidence coverage: AD 670–AD 794. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Currency continuity

Frankish denier–livre reckoning

T-FTM000560 · Research draft

Retain v17 currency ID, broaden profile with dated account observations; 670–675 qualified only.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: AD 670–AD 794; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Roman solidus–nomisma accounting — imperial and regional evidenceregional currency continuity · qualified · 400–700
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Children / successors

Livre tournoisregional currency continuity · qualified · 794–1204: broad research envelope, not a dated founding or completed local sequence
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Livre parisisregional currency continuity · qualified · 794–1204: broad research envelope, not a dated founding or completed local sequence
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Barcelona diner–sou–lliura accountingregional currency continuity · qualified · 800–991
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Portuguese dinheiro–soldo–libra accountingregional currency continuity · qualified · 800–1145
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Navarrese denier–libra and real accountingregional currency continuity · qualified · 800–1198
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Aragonese Jaca account moneyregional currency continuity · qualified · 800–1263
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Pound sterlingaccount unit branching · qualified · 600–1087
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Valencian account moneyaccount unit branching · qualified · 800–1300
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Mallorcan account moneyaccount unit branching · qualified · 800–1300
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Genoese lira — commercial and fuori-banco accountaccount unit transmission · qualified · 1138–1141
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Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Carolingian account poundFTM000560 · C232

Standards and other context

account system adoption

Frankish twelve-penny shilling reckoning entered English usage by the late tenth/early eleventh century, alongside older four- and five-penny shillings. This was subdivision transmission within an existing English penny system. Late-tenth-century uptake is reconstructed; Byrhtferth’s dated witness is 1011–c.1020. Four witnesses cluster in reformed monastic contexts; nationwide simultaneous adoption is not claimed.

C1850
account system adoption

AfonsoIII adopted French libra reckoning above existing soldo/dinheiro accounts; the Frankish node represents tradition, not an identified immediate parent.

C1945

Instruments, coinage & context

Supporting material, not parents or children.

Livre–sou–denier accountingsystem · profile context
Sou / solaccount unit · profile context

Latest research

Western accounting frontier

Angers loan formulas and the 803/816 settlement provisions narrow the western solidus question. Redaction dates and different legal reckonings remain explicit; no late-Roman ancestry bridge is admitted.

Sources and qualifications →
Gap review finding

Bothe reports the hypothesis that Salic forty-denarius reckoning refers to the late-Roman siliqua of Honorius and successors, while emphasizing disputed dating of the law's formation.

Sources and qualifications →
Gap review finding

Drew identifies the Salic forty-denarius equation as distinct from both Roman imperial and Carolingian reckoning and flags unresolved monetary interpretation; the ratio alone cannot establish a Roman currency identity bridge.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier account evidence

Spufford reports that Pope Zacharias’s 745 letter to Boniface treats the solidus as twelve deniers. This is an additional dated accounting witness within the existing Frankish profile, cited through original scholarship.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier account evidence

Spufford argues that the legal and transactional solidus, reckoned as three late gold tremisses, continued as an account unit reckoned as twelve silver deniers. This supports an earlier phase of the existing Frankish account profile, with transition dating qualified.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier account evidence

Marculf II.26 models a loan principal and repayment in solidi with annual interest of one triens per solidus. The collection is bounded by a 589 earliest compilation possibility and reception in the 720s; this is evidence of Merovingian contractual reckoning, not an executed loan dated to either endpoint.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier account evidence

Gregory III.33 acknowledges receipt of 400 Gallican solidi in church revenue, dated April 593. This is a geographically scoped Gallic revenue-account observation retained as context: it does not identify this southern Gallic unit with every later Frankish reckoning.

Sources and qualifications →
Account-reckoning transmission

Frankish twelve-penny shilling reckoning entered English usage by the late tenth/early eleventh century, alongside older four- and five-penny shillings. This was subdivision transmission within an existing English penny system.

Sources and qualifications →
Account-reckoning transmission

AfonsoIII adopted French libra reckoning above existing soldo/dinheiro accounts; the Frankish node represents tradition, not an identified immediate parent.

Sources and qualifications →
Salic forty-denar solidus: redaction still unresolved

Salic Law I.1, II.3 and L.2 explicitly denominate fines and payment-default additions at forty denars per solidus. This is legal account evidence, but its transmitted clauses are not individually dated here. Neither the Roman parentage of this reckoning nor its identity with the later twelve-denier solidus follows from the shared names.

Sources and qualifications →
roman_frankish

Frankish reckoning continues the late-Roman solidus account tradition: solidus reckoning survived the change from gold tremisses to silver deniers. Admit regional ancestry; the exact differentiation date and intermediate local stages remain unresolved.

Sources and qualifications →
frankish_barcelona

Catalan denier–solidus–libra accounting extends the Carolingian system. Retain the Barcelona branch and qualify the regional separation chronology.

Sources and qualifications →
frankish_portugal

The regional denier–solidus–libra system has Carolingian ancestry. This compressed ancestry link leaves intervening stages and the immediate parent unresolved; it does not establish direct siblinghood.

Sources and qualifications →
frankish_navarre

The regional denier–solidus–libra system has Carolingian ancestry. This compressed ancestry link leaves intervening stages and the immediate parent unresolved; it does not establish direct siblinghood.

Sources and qualifications →
frankish_jaca

The regional denier–solidus–libra system has Carolingian ancestry. This compressed ancestry link leaves intervening stages and the immediate parent unresolved; it does not establish direct siblinghood.

Sources and qualifications →
Frankish reckoning, varied English shillings

The Royal Mint Museum explicitly traces English reckoning to the Frankish kingdom. This supports transmission of an account system; it does not date a single founding reform. Hines's four-penny shilling in the 930s and Naismith's account of Offa's Frankish coin models prevent a uniform twelve-penny shilling or an exact Offa conversion from being projected across Anglo-Saxon England.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier European account ancestry

English penny–pound reckoning has Frankish account ancestry: the Royal Mint Museum explicitly describes transmission of the reckoning system. Admit a qualified, compressed ancestry link, without identifying a single founder, exact adoption date, conversion rate or uniform early shilling. The seventh century through William I is a research envelope, not a dated observation or a claim that transmission lasted this whole period.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier European account ancestry

Qualified Frankish ancestry of Valencian accounting through the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon: MEC6 identifies Carolingian-derived accounts and their regional diner basis. Intermediates and conversion terms remain open; 800–1300 is a research envelope, not a foundation date.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier European account ancestry

Qualified Frankish ancestry of Mallorcan accounting through the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon: MEC6's account-system synthesis supports the older ancestry. This does not establish Valencia as the immediate parent or turn coin replacement into debt conversion. The 800–1300 research envelope is not a foundation date.

Sources and qualifications →

Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

755supported

Account solidus of twelve denarii

C1026
794supported

Carolingian 240-denier pound reckoning

C1027
c.670–675qualified

Qualified extension from late-Merovingian deniers; account continuity inferred

C1031
743–744supported

Annual payment obligation in solidus defined as twelve denarii; no 240-denier pound asserted here

C1046
745supported

Spufford reports that Pope Zacharias’s 745 letter to Boniface treats the solidus as twelve deniers. This is an additional dated accounting witness within the existing Frankish profile, cited through original scholarship.

C1831
Monetary history 4 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

755Account unit observation

Rovelli interprets the 755 reckoning as twelve denarii per account solidus.

C1026
794Account unit observation

By the 794 reform, the reckoning comprised 240 denarii, twenty solidi and an account pound.

C1027
c.670–675Account unit observation

Inference: A qualified identity profile can extend Frankish reckoning to late-Merovingian deniers.

C1031
743–744Account unit observation

Liptines requires an annual solidus, defined as twelve denarii, per casada of retained church property; the text is dated 743–744.

C1046
Evidence & research notes 46 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan. 743–744 is a dated legal obligation, earlier than the recovered 755 anchor. 670–675 is a qualified identity extension from coinage evidence, not a directly dated account. Solidus units vary by context; no universal Roman bridge is admitted.

Supported C232

Monnaie de Paris describes Carolingian accounting as one pound, twenty sous, or 240 deniers.

Monnaie de Paris, 3 March 2017 · Métalmorphoses: chronology Citation S115 · Open source ↗

PDF p. 2, circa 770–790 entry

Source access and limitations

Exhibition overview contains simplifications and errors outside selected claims, including Joachimsthal 1486.

Not a universal chronology authority; gros dating checked against object catalogue.

Supported C1026

Rovelli interprets the 755 reckoning as twelve denarii per account solidus.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

p. 81

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Supported C1027

By the 794 reform, the reckoning comprised 240 denarii, twenty solidi and an account pound.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

pp. 81–82

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Inference C1031

A qualified identity profile can extend Frankish reckoning to late-Merovingian deniers.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

pp. 79, 81; editorial continuity inference

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Supported C1046

Liptines requires an annual solidus, defined as twelve denarii, per casada of retained church property; the text is dated 743–744.

Patrologia Latina 89, cols. 809–810, transcription · Concilium Liptinense, canon on ecclesiastical property Citation S487 · Open source ↗

PL 89 col.809C; BK11 date table

Source access and limitations

Not a manuscript inspection.

Read alongside the Capitularia dating record.

Capitularia, University of Cologne · Karlmanni principis capitulare Liptinense [BK 11] Citation S488 · Open source ↗

PL 89 col.809C; BK11 date table

Source access and limitations

Dating varies between 743 and 743–744; does not itself transcribe the payment clause.

Supported C1028

Rovelli dates Merovingian silver denarii approximately to 670–675.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

p. 79

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Supported C1029

Pepin reformed existing pennies; Charlemagne later strengthened their weight.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

p. 81

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Supported C1030

The medieval denarius reused a Roman name without its classical metrology.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

p. 79

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Inference C1032

Tournois can be treated as a qualified regional descendant of Frankish denier–livre reckoning.

Jean Lafaurie, 1970, pp. 117–137 · Numismatique. Des Carolingiens aux Capétiens Citation S127 · Open source ↗

Lafaurie pp. 134–136; Tournois entry; Rovelli pp. 81–82

Source access and limitations

Older scholarly synthesis; adopt bounded royal-adoption and relative-value claims, not approximate metallic reconstructions.

Académie française · Académie française — Tournois Citation S371 · Open source ↗

Lafaurie pp. 134–136; Tournois entry; Rovelli pp. 81–82

Source access and limitations

Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

Lafaurie pp. 134–136; Tournois entry; Rovelli pp. 81–82

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Inference C1033

Parisis can likewise be treated as a qualified regional descendant of Frankish reckoning.

Jean Lafaurie, 1970, pp. 117–137 · Numismatique. Des Carolingiens aux Capétiens Citation S127 · Open source ↗

Lafaurie pp. 134–136; Rovelli pp. 81–82

Source access and limitations

Older scholarly synthesis; adopt bounded royal-adoption and relative-value claims, not approximate metallic reconstructions.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

Lafaurie pp. 134–136; Rovelli pp. 81–82

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Supported C1034

The solidus survived chiefly as an account unit in the early medieval West.

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) Citation S483 · Open source ↗

pp. 65–66

Source access and limitations

Coinage continuity supports a qualified seventh-century extension, not a complete local account sequence.

Qualified C1043

Sgambati offers a broad Roman-to-medieval account-money narrative through Bloch.

Stefano Sgambati (2020), author manuscript · Historicising the money of account: a critique of monetary nominalism Citation S486 · Open source ↗

pp. 17–19

Source access and limitations

Broad narrative through Bloch; not an independently dated local succession chain.

Supported C1047

The 816 rule pays Salic-law debts in twelve-denarius solidi, retaining forty for a Saxon or Frisian killing a Salic Frank.

Capitularia, University of Cologne · Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, XXXIII: BK 135 c.2 Citation S489 · Open source ↗

BK135 c.2; fols.147v–148r

Source access and limitations

The 40-denarius exception concerns Saxon/Frisian killing of a Salic Frank; not every interregional payment.

Inference C1048

The 816 rule establishes scoped legal reckonings, not a universal late-Roman-to-Frankish identity or conversion.

Capitularia, University of Cologne · Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, XXXIII: BK 135 c.2 Citation S489 · Open source ↗

BK135 c.2; editorial inference

Source access and limitations

The 40-denarius exception concerns Saxon/Frisian killing of a Salic Frank; not every interregional payment.

Supported C1056

The 797 Saxon commodity tariff explicitly reckons twelve silver denarii per solidus.

Fordham Internet Medieval Sourcebook, after Cave and Coulson · Monetary Regulations of the Carolingians, 750–817 Citation S492 · Open source ↗

Aix-la-Chapelle 797, chapter 11

Source access and limitations

Page labels the early Pippin text c.750; do not use that heading to override the critical date of 755.

Supported C1065

Angers 22 models a silver loan reckoned in solidi, secured by a vineyard and its produce until repayment.

Formulae–Litterae–Chartae, Hamburg Academy / University of Hamburg · Angers 22: loan secured on a vineyard Citation S499 · Open source ↗

Angers 22, loan and repayment clauses; Fulda D1 fols.150v–151r

Source access and limitations

An anonymized model document with placeholder amounts and years, not an individually dated surviving transaction.

Latin edition, regest and German translation inspected

Qualified C1066

Walther places the underlying private documents of the Angers collection in the late sixth century.

Christoph Walther, University of Hamburg (26 November 2018) · Die Sprache der Formeln von Angers Citation S500 · Open source ↗

Opening paragraph and note 1

Source access and limitations

Late-sixth-century background applies to underlying documents as a collection; it cannot supply an exact date for formula 22.

Supported C1067

The inspected Lex Salica text equates 120 denarii with three solidi and 1,200 denarii with thirty solidi.

Wikisource transcription of a historical edition · Lex Salica: transmitted Latin text Citation S501 · Open source ↗

Title XVII §§3,6,8; debt-enforcement passage

Source access and limitations

Transcription, not critical manuscript collation.

Do not assign each monetary clause to Clovis merely from the code’s traditional attribution.

Supported C1068

The Cologne catalogue distinguishes Merovingian versions A/C from eighth- and ninth-century versions, including K associated with 802.

Bibliotheca legum, University of Cologne · Lex Salica: redactions and manuscript bibliography Citation S502 · Open source ↗

Introduction, versions A/C/K and bibliography

Source access and limitations

Dates redactions; not an edition proving the date of each conversion clause.

Supported C1069

BK 39 c.9 (803) settles debts to the king in twelve-denarius solidi, with an exception for Salic-law freda.

Capitularia, University of Cologne; Vatican Reg. Lat.1036 · Capitulare legibus additum (803), BK 39 c.9 Citation S503 · Open source ↗

Manuscript contents: 2r–4v; transcription BK 39 c.9 on fol.4r

Source access and limitations

Royal debt settlement has an explicit Salic-fine exception; not a universal replacement rule.

Primary manuscript transcription and dating inspected

Supported C1070

The 816 clauses explicitly apply twelve-denarius settlement to Salic-law obligations while retaining a specified forty-denarius exception.

Capitularia, University of Cologne · Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, XXXIII: BK 135 c.2 Citation S489 · Open source ↗

fols. 147v–148r, BK 135 c.2; catalogue dates text to 816

Source access and limitations

The 40-denarius exception concerns Saxon/Frisian killing of a Salic Frank; not every interregional payment.

Inference C1071

The 803/816 provisions demonstrate legal settlement continuity across different solidus reckonings, without proving a single universal unit.

Wikisource transcription of a historical edition · Lex Salica: transmitted Latin text Citation S501 · Open source ↗

Title XVII §§3,6,8; debt-enforcement passage

Source access and limitations

Transcription, not critical manuscript collation.

Do not assign each monetary clause to Clovis merely from the code’s traditional attribution.

Bibliotheca legum, University of Cologne · Lex Salica: redactions and manuscript bibliography Citation S502 · Open source ↗

Introduction, versions A/C/K and bibliography

Source access and limitations

Dates redactions; not an edition proving the date of each conversion clause.

Capitularia, University of Cologne; Vatican Reg. Lat.1036 · Capitulare legibus additum (803), BK 39 c.9 Citation S503 · Open source ↗

Manuscript contents: 2r–4v; transcription BK 39 c.9 on fol.4r

Source access and limitations

Royal debt settlement has an explicit Salic-fine exception; not a universal replacement rule.

Primary manuscript transcription and dating inspected

Capitularia, University of Cologne · Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, XXXIII: BK 135 c.2 Citation S489 · Open source ↗

fols. 147v–148r, BK 135 c.2; catalogue dates text to 816

Source access and limitations

The 40-denarius exception concerns Saxon/Frisian killing of a Salic Frank; not every interregional payment.

Supported C1092

Naismith identifies Pippin III’s reformed Frankish coinage and Beonna’s East Anglian issues as models for Offa’s broad pennies.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Supported C1093

Naismith gives an approximate 1.30 g target for Offa’s light pennies, matching contemporary Frankish coinage; the 792/3 heavy reform used about 1.45 g.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Supported C1094

The 2024 silver-provenance study places Offa’s coinage within continental silver-supply connections. This is evidence about metal supply, not by itself ancestry of the English pound.

Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Paolo D’Imporzano and Rory Naismith, Antiquity 98(398), 2024 · Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: provenance of silver, c. 660–820 Citation S146 · Open source ↗

Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion; DOI 10.15184/aqy.2024.33

Source access and limitations

49-coin analytical sample; excludes low-fineness English interval c. 715–760.

Open C1095

Frankish models and silver-supply connections do not yet establish a dated Frankish-to-English account-unit succession. No new ancestry edge is admitted.

Corrected interpretation: Explicit museum evidence of transmitted reckoning now supports qualified Frankish ancestry. The earlier caution about coin imitation remains valid; an exact dated account conversion is still not asserted. Replacement evidence: C2097.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Paolo D’Imporzano and Rory Naismith, Antiquity 98(398), 2024 · Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: provenance of silver, c. 660–820 Citation S146 · Open source ↗

Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion; DOI 10.15184/aqy.2024.33

Source access and limitations

49-coin analytical sample; excludes low-fineness English interval c. 715–760.

Qualified C1320

Bothe reports the hypothesis that Salic forty-denarius reckoning refers to the late-Roman siliqua of Honorius and successors, while emphasizing disputed dating of the law's formation.

Lukas Bothe · From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law, in Transformations of Romanness (2018), pp.345–369 Citation S638 · Open source ↗

Printed pp.346–349, especially p.347 notes14–17 and p.349 translation of Pactus41

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Original legal-historical research reporting Grierson/Blackburn hypothesis; original numismatic argument not independently inspected.

Qualified C1321

Drew identifies the Salic forty-denarius equation as distinct from both Roman imperial and Carolingian reckoning and flags unresolved monetary interpretation; the ratio alone cannot establish a Roman currency identity bridge.

Katherine Fischer Drew · The Laws of the Salian Franks (University of Pennsylvania Press,1991) Citation S639

Printed pp.232–233, Pactus notes1,6,9; title/copyright page

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1831

Spufford reports that Pope Zacharias’s 745 letter to Boniface treats the solidus as twelve deniers. This is an additional dated accounting witness within the existing Frankish profile, cited through original scholarship.

Peter Spufford (1988) · Money and its Use in Medieval Europe, Cambridge University Press Citation S951

Printed p.33, final paragraph

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Inference C1832

Spufford argues that the legal and transactional solidus, reckoned as three late gold tremisses, continued as an account unit reckoned as twelve silver deniers. This supports an earlier phase of the existing Frankish account profile, with transition dating qualified.

Peter Spufford (1988) · Money and its Use in Medieval Europe, Cambridge University Press Citation S951

Printed p.34, paragraphs 1–2; p.35 legal-settlement discussion

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C1833

Marculf II.26 models a loan principal and repayment in solidi with annual interest of one triens per solidus. The collection is bounded by a 589 earliest compilation possibility and reception in the 720s; this is evidence of Merovingian contractual reckoning, not an executed loan dated to either endpoint.

Marculf; Formulae–Litterae–Chartae editorial project, Universität Hamburg · Marculf II.26, Schuldschein über Darlehen mit Zinsvereinbarung (beta critical edition) Citation S949 · Open source ↗

Marculf II.26 complete formula; Lößlein paragraphs 2–5

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Manuscript facsimiles were not inspected.

Horst Lößlein (24 May 2022) · Zur Datierung der Formelbücher des Marculf Citation S950 · Open source ↗

Marculf II.26 complete formula; Lößlein paragraphs 2–5

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1834

Gregory III.33 acknowledges receipt of 400 Gallican solidi in church revenue, dated April 593. This is a geographically scoped Gallic revenue-account observation retained as context: it does not identify this southern Gallic unit with every later Frankish reckoning.

Gregory the Great; translated James Barmby (1895) · Registrum epistolarum, Book III, Letter 33, To Dynamius Citation S947 · Open source ↗

Gregory III.33 revenue paragraph; Laynesmith estate-revenue section and note 77

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Read entire letter in historical English translation.

Mark Laynesmith (2025) · Why Did the Mission to the Anglo-Saxons Stall in 596: Anxiety, Politics or Money? Journal of Ecclesiastical History 76(3), 513–535 Citation S948 · Open source ↗

Gregory III.33 revenue paragraph; Laynesmith estate-revenue section and note 77

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1850

Frankish twelve-penny shilling reckoning entered English usage by the late tenth/early eleventh century, alongside older four- and five-penny shillings. This was subdivision transmission within an existing English penny system. Late-tenth-century uptake is reconstructed; Byrhtferth’s dated witness is 1011–c.1020. Four witnesses cluster in reformed monastic contexts; nationwide simultaneous adoption is not claimed.

Rory Naismith · Medieval European Coinage, volume 8: Britain and Ireland c.400–1066 (Cambridge, 2017) Citation S944

Appendix2 pp.363–364, table23; glossary pp.386–387

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C1944

Regional ancestry from imported Carolingian account units to Barcelona’s locally documented solidus/denarius accounting; the compressed intervening sequence and exact independent identity boundary remain unresolved. The date interval brackets the research horizon, not a documented founding date.

Jonathan Jarrett · Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics (2009) Citation S999 · Open source ↗

p219 explicit importation of account units; pp226–230 Barcelona991 convention and972 prices

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Original manuscripts not inspected.

Qualified C1945

AfonsoIII adopted French libra reckoning above existing soldo/dinheiro accounts; the Frankish node represents tradition, not an identified immediate parent.

Damião Peres · Analogias e discordâncias das numárias medievais de Leão-Castela e Portugal, Nvmisma78–83(1966),23–34 Citation S988 · Open source ↗

Peresp.26; Puntoniopening paragraphs andnotes6–7

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

OCR contains errors; no use made of ambiguous later contract-year OCR 1004/1094.

Original researcher’s documentary interpretation, underlying 1090/1091 manuscripts not inspected.

Pedro Puntoni · Da libra ao real: sobre a formação do sistema monetário português (1185–1580), Revista de História178 (2019), DOI10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2019.141351 Citation S930 · Open source ↗

Peresp.26; Puntoniopening paragraphs andnotes6–7

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1975

Salic Law I.1, II.3 and L.2 explicitly denominate fines and payment-default additions at forty denars per solidus. This is legal account evidence, but its transmitted clauses are not individually dated here. Neither the Roman parentage of this reckoning nor its identity with the later twelve-denier solidus follows from the shared names.

Salic Law; Ernest F. Henderson (1896), hosted by Yale Avalon · The Salic Law: monetary obligations Citation S1029 · Open source ↗

Titles I.1, II.3 and L.2

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Historical translation inspected.

Obvious numerical inconsistencies elsewhere in the transcription are not used.

Qualified C1987

Frankish reckoning continues the late-Roman solidus account tradition: solidus reckoning survived the change from gold tremisses to silver deniers. Admit regional ancestry; the exact differentiation date and intermediate local stages remain unresolved.

Peter Spufford (1988) · Money and its Use in Medieval Europe, Cambridge University Press Citation S951

pp. 19, 33–34; Main text and notes 8–12

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Horst Lößlein · Solidus (2021), Formulae–Litterae–Chartae Citation S1031 · Open source ↗

pp. 19, 33–34; Main text and notes 8–12

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C1989

Catalan denier–solidus–libra accounting extends the Carolingian system. Retain the Barcelona branch and qualify the regional separation chronology.

Miquel Crusafont, Anna M. Balaguer and Philip Grierson · Medieval European Coinage, volume 6 (2013) Citation S1032 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 6, 11–16; PDF pages 42, 47–52

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Publisher preview PDF, introductory account-system passages inspected; entire volume not inspected.

Publisher preview inspected, printed pp. 5 and 11–13.

Separate chapters on Valencia and Majorca are outside this preview; no immediate local parent or conversion decree is claimed.

Qualified C1990

The regional denier–solidus–libra system has Carolingian ancestry. This compressed ancestry link leaves intervening stages and the immediate parent unresolved; it does not establish direct siblinghood.

Miquel Crusafont, Anna M. Balaguer and Philip Grierson · Medieval European Coinage, volume 6 (2013) Citation S1032 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 6, 11–16; PDF pages 42, 47–52

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Publisher preview PDF, introductory account-system passages inspected; entire volume not inspected.

Publisher preview inspected, printed pp. 5 and 11–13.

Separate chapters on Valencia and Majorca are outside this preview; no immediate local parent or conversion decree is claimed.

Qualified C1991

The regional denier–solidus–libra system has Carolingian ancestry. This compressed ancestry link leaves intervening stages and the immediate parent unresolved; it does not establish direct siblinghood.

Miquel Crusafont, Anna M. Balaguer and Philip Grierson · Medieval European Coinage, volume 6 (2013) Citation S1032 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 6, 11–16; PDF pages 42, 47–52

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Publisher preview PDF, introductory account-system passages inspected; entire volume not inspected.

Publisher preview inspected, printed pp. 5 and 11–13.

Separate chapters on Valencia and Majorca are outside this preview; no immediate local parent or conversion decree is claimed.

Qualified C1992

The regional denier–solidus–libra system has Carolingian ancestry. This compressed ancestry link leaves intervening stages and the immediate parent unresolved; it does not establish direct siblinghood.

Miquel Crusafont, Anna M. Balaguer and Philip Grierson · Medieval European Coinage, volume 6 (2013) Citation S1032 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 6, 11–16; PDF pages 42, 47–52

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Publisher preview PDF, introductory account-system passages inspected; entire volume not inspected.

Publisher preview inspected, printed pp. 5 and 11–13.

Separate chapters on Valencia and Majorca are outside this preview; no immediate local parent or conversion decree is claimed.

Supported C2094

The Royal Mint Museum explicitly traces English reckoning to the Frankish kingdom. This supports transmission of an account system; it does not date a single founding reform. Hines's four-penny shilling in the 930s and Naismith's account of Offa's Frankish coin models prevent a uniform twelve-penny shilling or an exact Offa conversion from being projected across Anglo-Saxon England.

Royal Mint Museum · Pounds, Shillings and Pence (undated) Citation S1100 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency; pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159; pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

John Hines, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), pp.153–173; DOI 10.1017/S0003581510000089 · Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England: scillingas, sceattas and pæningas Citation S497 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency; pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159; pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

Source access and limitations

Regional shillings differ.

Proposed ancient metal equivalences are interpretations, not a dated succession chain.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency; pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159; pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

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Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Qualified C2097

English penny–pound reckoning has Frankish account ancestry: the Royal Mint Museum explicitly describes transmission of the reckoning system. Admit a qualified, compressed ancestry link, without identifying a single founder, exact adoption date, conversion rate or uniform early shilling. The seventh century through William I is a research envelope, not a dated observation or a claim that transmission lasted this whole period.

Royal Mint Museum · Pounds, Shillings and Pence (undated) Citation S1100 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

John Hines, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), pp.153–173; DOI 10.1017/S0003581510000089 · Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England: scillingas, sceattas and pæningas Citation S497 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency

Source access and limitations

Regional shillings differ.

Proposed ancient metal equivalences are interpretations, not a dated succession chain.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Qualified C2098

Qualified Frankish ancestry of Valencian accounting through the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon: MEC6 identifies Carolingian-derived accounts and their regional diner basis. Intermediates and conversion terms remain open; 800–1300 is a research envelope, not a foundation date.

Miquel Crusafont, Anna M. Balaguer and Philip Grierson · Medieval European Coinage, volume 6 (2013) Citation S1032 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 5, 11–13; general Carolingian-derived accounting and Crown of Catalonia-Aragon account standard

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Publisher preview PDF, introductory account-system passages inspected; entire volume not inspected.

Publisher preview inspected, printed pp. 5 and 11–13.

Separate chapters on Valencia and Majorca are outside this preview; no immediate local parent or conversion decree is claimed.

Qualified C2099

Qualified Frankish ancestry of Mallorcan accounting through the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon: MEC6's account-system synthesis supports the older ancestry. This does not establish Valencia as the immediate parent or turn coin replacement into debt conversion. The 800–1300 research envelope is not a foundation date.

Miquel Crusafont, Anna M. Balaguer and Philip Grierson · Medieval European Coinage, volume 6 (2013) Citation S1032 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 5, 11–13; general Carolingian-derived accounting and Crown of Catalonia-Aragon account standard

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Publisher preview PDF, introductory account-system passages inspected; entire volume not inspected.

Publisher preview inspected, printed pp. 5 and 11–13.

Separate chapters on Valencia and Majorca are outside this preview; no immediate local parent or conversion decree is claimed.

Inference C2109

Felloni traces the Carolingian pound–shilling–denier system through regional Pavia money to Genoa’s local reckoning. The Genoese mint contract of 1141 specifies lire, and his account follows the Genoese lira through later changes. This supports qualified inherited account ancestry through Italian intermediates, not direct Frankish-to-Genoese debt conversion or parity. The 1138–1141 interval covers mint authorization and account documentation; it is not an exact separation date.

Giuseppe Felloni · Alle origini della moneta genovese [The origins of Genoese money] (1997) Citation S1109 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 685–689; PDF pages 4–8 zero-based; especially pp. 685–686 and 688–689

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full article OCR read; printed p. 689 screenshot checked.

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