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Denier à la mitre Alphonse I D'Aragon et Raymond de Bollene
| Issuer | County of Provence and Archbishopric of Arles |
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| Year | 1177-1185 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a bishop's mitre in high relief, rendered in the bold, simplified Romanesque style characteristic of 12th-century Provençal feudal coinage. The mitre is embellished with four symmetrically placed globules and is contained within a beaded inner circle. The peripheral Latin legend .REX. ARAGONE. runs between the inner beaded circle and an outer beaded border, attributing the authority of Alphonse I of Aragon in his capacity as Count of Provence. The overall composition reflects the joint ecclesiastical and secular authority underlying this coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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This joint issue reflects one of the more unusual arrangements in medieval Provençal monetary history: a formal agreement between Alfonso I of Aragon — simultaneously count of Barcelona and of Provence through his aunt Douce's inheritance — and Raymond of Bollène, Archbishop of Arles, under which both powers shared the right of coinage in the region. Such co-struck deniers were a direct product of competing jurisdictional claims over Arles, a city the archbishops had long treated as their monetary fief.
Alfonso's Provençal tenure was perpetually distracted by Iberian commitments, leaving local ecclesiastical authority unusually intact.