Carolingian Economy: Coinage, Trade, and Agrarian Change (c. 750–900)

1. Melle silver mining expands as major coin metal source

   Jan 1, 700Labels: Melle mines, Poitou region, Silver coinage

   • Antiquity
   • CiteDrive

2. Pippin III issues early Carolingian monetary regulations

   Jan 1, 750Labels: Pippin III, Carolingian capitulary, Monetary regulation

   • Fordham Sourcebook

3. Charlemagne begins broad denier coinage consolidation

   Jan 1, 768Labels: Charlemagne, Denier coin, Frankish realm

   • Yale Art Gallery
   • Fordham Sourcebook

4. Capitulary of Frankfurt mandates acceptance of “new deniers”

   Jan 1, 794Labels: Capitulary of, New deniers, Royal decree

   • Fordham Sourcebook

5. Carolingian pound system (240 deniers) promoted in reform era

   Jan 1, 794Labels: Carolingian pound, Monetary reform, Accounting system

   • Fordham Sourcebook
   • Aachen Penny

6. Royal estate management guidance compiled in Capitulare de villis

   Jan 1, 800Labels: Capitulare de, Royal estates, Estate management

   • Capitulare de villis
   • Erenow Wickham

7. Charlemagne crowned emperor, shaping coin titulature and symbolism

   Dec 25, 800Labels: Charlemagne, Imperial coronation, Coin iconography

   • Library of Congress

8. Polyptych of Saint-Germain inventories agrarian dues and labor

   Jan 1, 823Labels: Polyptych of, Abbot Irminon, Ecclesiastical estates

   • Polyptych

9. Dorestad reaches peak as a Carolingian emporium

   Jan 1, 825Labels: Dorestad, Carolingian emporium, Harbor-town

   • Brepols
   • Dorestad

10. Viking raid on Dorestad signals mounting trade disruption

    Jan 1, 834Labels: Viking raid, Dorestad, Trade disruption

    • Dorestad
    • Dorestad FR

11. Treaty of Verdun fragments imperial fiscal and monetary control

    Aug 10, 843Labels: Treaty of, Carolingian partition, Fiscal fragmentation

    • Carolingian Economy

12. Edict of Pîtres launches Western Frankish coinage strengthening

    Jun 25, 864Labels: Edict of, Charles the, Western Frankish

    • dit de P
    • ANS