Denier - Adhemar of Monteil Marsal

Adhémar of Monteil held the see of Metz during one of the most turbulent stretches in the city's medieval history — his episcopate overlapping almost exactly with the first wave of the Black Death, which reached the Moselle valley by 1349 and devastated the local population. The bishops of Metz had exercised temporal coinage rights since the Carolingian period, but their monetary authority was increasingly contested by the city's bourgeoisie throughout the fourteenth century, a conflict that would eventually strip episcopal minting privileges entirely.

Flon 8 is among the lighter issues of the Metz denier sequence, a reduction that tracks the broader silver debasement pressure affecting Lorraine throughout the mid-fourteenth century.