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Denier anonymous with SM
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Vienne |
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| Year | 1100-1150 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the letters S and M (for Sanctus Mauritius) arranged beneath a horizontal bar, enclosed within a plain inner circle. The monogram is boldly struck in low relief, characteristic of early 12th-century feudal hammered coinage. Surrounding the inner circle, the circumferential legend reads in Latin across an irregular flan. The overall design is typical of anonymous ecclesiastical deniers struck in the name of the patron saint rather than a named archbishop. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The archbishops of Vienne exercised comital rights over their city from the late tenth century, and the anonymous deniers struck under their authority deliberately avoided episcopal identification — a practice common where temporal and ecclesiastical legitimacy were still being negotiated with the Holy Roman Empire. Vienne sat within a region where imperial, papal, and local interests collided repeatedly in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and anonymous coinage was as much a political hedge as a monetary one.
The SM monogram references Saint Maurice, patron of the city and its cathedral chapter.