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Denier anonyme Marsal
| Issuer | Bishopric of Metz |
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| Year | 1104-1115 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The bishops of Metz held minting rights from the Carolingian period, but the anonymous denier issues of the early twelfth century reflect a deliberate institutional choice to suppress episcopal identity on coinage — a response, in part, to the Investiture Controversy roiling relations between the German episcopate and Rome throughout this period. Bishop Adalberon II had previously used named issues; the shift to anonymous types under his successors was not administrative accident.
Marsal, a fortified salt-producing town in the Saulnois, gave these pieces their toponym precisely because the salt revenues it generated underpinned episcopal monetary authority in the region.