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Denier anonymous
| Issuer | Orange, Principality of |
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| Year | 1220-1280 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a cornet (bugle-horn), the heraldic device of the Princes of Orange, depicted in relief within a plain inner circle. The cornet is shown with its bell facing downward and its tube curving upward, rendered in the characteristic crude style of medieval hammered billon coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the inner circle, reading + AVRASICE, referencing the principality of Orange. The flan is irregular, typical of hand-struck medieval issues. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Principality of Orange occupied an awkward political position throughout the thirteenth century — nominally within the orbit of the Holy Roman Empire as a fief, yet geographically embedded in Provençal territory where French royal influence was steadily encroaching. These anonymous deniers were struck under the Baux dynasty, lords of Orange who were simultaneously entangled in the prolonged conflict over Provençal succession following the death of Raymond Berenguer V in 1245. The attribution "anonymous" reflects not obscurity but deliberate practice: many Occitan and Rhône valley lords issued coinage without naming themselves, relying instead on the town's established monetary reputation.