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Denier - Gerard Remiremont mint
| Issuer | Lorraine, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1048-1070 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central device consists of a schematic temple or church facade rendered as a rectangular structure with multiple horizontal registers, suggestive of the abbey of Saint-Pierre at Remiremont, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. This architectural motif, characteristic of ecclesiastical deniers of the Lotharingian region, is boldly if crudely executed in the hammered technique. The surrounding legend, introduced by a cross pattee, reads ✠ S-S PETRVS, invoking Saints Peter as patron of the Remiremont abbey. The flan is irregular and the strike shows typical off-center weakness at the periphery. The reverse design underscores the close relationship between ducal authority and ecclesiastical minting in eleventh-century Lorraine. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Gerard I of Lorraine held the duchy during one of the most turbulent stretches of the Investiture Controversy's prelude, when ducal authority over ecclesiastical appointments — and the revenues attached to them — was fiercely contested. The Remiremont mint had deep ties to the abbey there, one of the oldest female monastic foundations in the Frankish world, and the question of who controlled striking rights at that house remained genuinely unresolved across much of this period.
Kluge-Karnapp 232 is among the scarcer attributions in the Lorraine denier series.