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Recent acquisitions

This page provides a summary and brief descriptions of the most important new additions to the coin and banknote collection as well as to the numismatic library. The lists will be updated as the occasion demands; the most recent additions are at the top of each list.

Carolingian Empire, Pippin the Short, King of the Franks

751-768 (Mayor of the Palace 741-751), Denar (Pfennig)

Denar (Pfennig) (Source: Bundesbank)

Pepin the Short denarius, struck in Trier, perhaps from the period before he was proclaimed king in 751, and thus one of the earliest Carolingian coins to be minted.

[Data record Id. 102358]