The Carolingian pound (Latin: pondus Caroli, German: Karlspfund), also called Charlemagne's pound or the Charlemagne pound, was a unit of weight that emerged...

weight of the coin became a pfund ("pound"), from which 240 pfennigs ("pennies") could be struck. This Carolingian pound weighed approximately 408 grammes...

The Carolingian Renaissance was the first of three medieval renaissances, a period of cultural activity in the Carolingian Empire. Charlemagne's reign...

lira) as well as the English word pound Libra (weight), an ancient Roman unit of weight, basis for the Carolingian pound Local exchange trading system: many...

larger than the old Roman pound of 328.9g), and ordered 240 silver units known as denarii to be struck from the new Carolingian pound of pure silver, each...

base weight to be specified was the Carolingian Pound, a pound of pure silver weighing 407.92 g. The Carolingian Pound was superseded by what became the...

respectively, but are now officially demonetised. The pound sterling emerged after the adoption of the Carolingian monetary system in England c. 800. Here is a...

1⁄96 of the Roman pound. In the Carolingian monetary system, the pound was the basic unit of mass. It was stipulated that from one pound of silver, 240 pfennigs...

First Punic War, with an average weight of 6.81 grams, or 1⁄48 of a Roman pound. Contact with the Greeks had prompted a need for silver coinage in addition...

standardized .940-fine denier (Latin: denarius) weighing 1⁄240 pound. (As the Carolingian pound seems to have been about 489.5 grams, each penny weighed about...

often resulted in purchase amounts in "pound hellers", which did not necessarily correspond to the Carolingian pound of 240 hellers. In what was then Bohemian...

papers and literature Libra (weight), an ancient Roman unit of weight Carolingian pound (Latin: libra), a unit of weight and coinage based on the Roman unit...

was introduced by David I, in the 12th century, on the Carolingian monetary system of a pound divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. The Scottish...

Schilger or Schilk in Lusatia. 240 pfennigs were minted from the 367 g Carolingian pound of silver. A schilling was determined to be twelve pfennigs, but was...

minted throughout the realm. Therefore the Carolingian monetary reform and the creation of the Carolingian pound can be dated to the years 793 and 794. The...

time sterling followed the Carolingian monetary system of a pound divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. The pound sterling became the standard...

ISBN 0-550-10105-5. The last country to abandon the Carolingian system was Nigeria in 1973, when the pound was replaced by the naira. "Poesie e Prose in dialetto"...

the Roman Empire. When Europe resumed a monetary system, during the Carolingian Empire, the Roman system was adopted. The Roman denominations librae...

adoption of Western Europe's Carolingian monetary system wherein 12 pence made a shilling and 20 shillings made a pound. The weight of the English penny...

established a new silver currency which specified that: 1 silver Carolingian pound (equal to about 406½ grammes) =  20 schillings (solidi) = 240 pfennigs...

The Cantos is a long modernist poem by Ezra Pound, written in 109 canonical sections in addition to a number of drafts and fragments added as a supplement...

monetary reform, based on the Carolingian silver pound (about 406.5 grams). The schilling was one-twentieth of a pound or about 20.3 grams of silver....

The libra jaquesa or Jaca pound was a type of coin that was used in the Kingdom of Aragon from the 11th and 12th centuries until after 1800 as a unit...

pagan Europe continued. The Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, briefly established the Carolingian Empire during the later 8th and early 9th centuries...

the minting standard of the Carolingian monetary reform under which 240 pfennigs were minted from the Carolingian pound of silver weighing 367 g. Twelve...

measurement prior to metrication were established under Charlemagne during the Carolingian Renaissance. Based on contemporary Byzantine and ancient Roman measures...

Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system (£sd), under which the largest unit was a pound (£) divisible into 20 shillings (s),...

(839 – 13 January 888) was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis...

Prior to 1434 the Dutch issued currency conforming to the Carolingian monetary system, with a pound divided into 20 shillings and a shilling divided into...

Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system, under which the largest unit was a pound divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence...