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Denier anonymous
| Issuer | Toul, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1306-1309 |
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| Currency | Livre |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of a bishop in episcopal vestments, standing within a beaded inner circle, holding a crozier in the left hand and an open Gospel book in the right. The figure is rendered in a flat, stylized Romanesque manner typical of early 14th-century episcopal deniers. A partial legend referencing Liverdun surrounds the figure within the beaded border. The field displays the crude but expressive engraving characteristic of hammered ecclesiastical coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | RD` LIBC (Translation: Liverdun.) |
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The deniers of Toul's bishops occupy an awkward corner of medieval Lorraine monetary history — the bishopric's mint rights were perpetually contested between the bishop, the chapter, and the Duchy of Lorraine, producing brief, interrupted issues that rarely survive in quantity. The 1306–1309 window corresponds to the episcopate of Matthieu de Lorraine, whose tenure was consumed largely by jurisdictional disputes with the chapter canons rather than administrative consolidation.
Flon records only this single variety for the period, suggesting limited production.