Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Denier
| Issuer | Bishopric of Geneva |
|---|---|
| Year | 1150 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A bold cross pattée occupies the central field, its arms extending to an inner beaded or plain circle, with the letter S appearing in the upper-left and lower-right cantons, a device characteristic of Genevan episcopal deniers of the mid-twelfth century. The composition is executed in the flat, linear style typical of Romanesque hammered coinage. The surrounding circular legend + GENEVA CIVITAS identifies the city of Geneva as the place of issue. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Bishops of Geneva exercised temporal coinage rights alongside their ecclesiastical authority from at least the mid-twelfth century, a privilege that brought them into sustained conflict with the Counts of Geneva over control of the city's commercial traffic. This denier belongs to that contested period, when the mint at Geneva was producing episcopal coin to assert jurisdictional dominance over a strategically positioned crossing on the Rhône.
The HMZ 1-292a attribution places this among the earliest documented Geneva episcopal issues.