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Denier - Fulk
| Issuer | Abbey of Corbie |
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| Year | 1048-1079 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | FVLCO [...] (Translation: Abbot Fulk.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Corbie's minting rights were among the oldest held by any French abbey, traceable to Merovingian royal grants, and the house jealously defended them against encroachment by local bishops and secular lords throughout the eleventh century. The abbacy of Fulk — who governed Corbie during a period of significant Gregorian reform pressure — placed the monastery in a complicated position between papal authority and the French crown.
Billon coinage from Picard abbeys of this period is notoriously poorly documented in surviving mint records, making die linkage studies the primary tool for establishing relative chronology within the type.