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| Issuer | Bishopric of Geneva |
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| Year | 1019-1030 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse lettering | + SPE SVDARNOC |
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| Mintage | ND (1019-1030) |
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Conrad II granted the Bishop of Geneva the right to strike coin during his reign, part of a broader Salian policy of delegating minting authority to ecclesiastical lords as a means of consolidating imperial influence through loyal church intermediaries rather than through direct royal administration. Geneva sat at a commercially significant Alpine crossing, and episcopal control of local coinage was as much about taxing trade as about liturgical prestige.
The HMZ 1#1-286b attribution places this among a tightly documented sequence of early Genevan episcopal issues, though die-linked survivors are rare enough that precise dating within the 1019–1030 window remains a matter of scholarly debate.