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Denier anonymous
| Issuer | Bishopric of Gap |
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| Year | 1300-1325 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ BEATE MARIE (Translation: Saint Mary.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The bishops of Gap held comital rights over their city and surrounding territories through much of the medieval period, a jurisdictional arrangement that entitled them to strike coinage under their own authority rather than that of the French crown or the Dauphiné. The Gap bishopric's monetary privilege was contested and intermittently suspended — the anonymous character of this denier, carrying no bishop's name, reflects a deliberate minting convention common to ecclesiastical issues seeking to assert institutional rather than personal authority.
Dyey's féodales reference 2340 places this type firmly within the transitional quarter-century bracketing the region's eventual absorption into Dauphiné jurisdiction under Humbert I.