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Denier anonymous
| Issuer | Saint Benignus of Dijon, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1050-1150 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | A plain cross pattée centered within a beaded inner circle, with an annulet in the upper left quarter and a second annulet in the upper right quarter. The circular legend + DIVIONENSIS runs around the periphery outside the beaded border, referencing the city of Dijon. The die is crudely engraved in the Romanesque manner typical of monastic ecclesiastical issues of the mid-to-late eleventh century. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The field displays a bold three-line inscription arranged across the entire flan, reading PRI / MAS / DES, an abbreviation of the phrase PRIMA SEDES ('First Seat'), asserting the abbey's primacy. The large, angular capitals fill the flan almost entirely, leaving little open field visible. The lettering is characteristic of the crude, high-relief hammered style common to Burgundian ecclesiastical deniers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. No border is present, and the irregular flan edge is typical of hand-struck monastic coinage of this period. |
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