The archbishops of Arles exercised minting rights through much of the medieval period, but their monetary authority was perpetually contested — both by the counts of Provence and, later, by the French crown pushing southward into formerly imperial territory. The anonymous attribution reflects a deliberate or administrative gap in the record rather than uncertainty about the issuing body itself.
Dy féodales 1738 places this type squarely in the transitional decades when Arles was losing practical independence to Angevin Provence.
The archbishops of Arles exercised minting rights through much of the medieval period, but their monetary authority was perpetually contested — both by the counts of Provence and, later, by the French crown pushing southward into formerly imperial territory. The anonymous attribution reflects a deliberate or administrative gap in the record rather than uncertainty about the issuing body itself.
Dy féodales 1738 places this type squarely in the transitional decades when Arles was losing practical independence to Angevin Provence.