Denier - Henri Ier Senlis, CVTAS SHHICTR

Henri I came to the French throne after a civil war against his own mother, Constance of Arles, who backed his younger brother Robert for the succession. The Senlis mint was among the royal ateliers he controlled directly, and these deniers formed the backbone of Capetian royal coinage at a moment when the crown's actual territorial authority was shrinking against the rising power of the great vassals. The legend corruption — CVTAS SHHICTR being a mangled rendering of CIVITAS SILVANECTIS — is not damage but an original die-cutting error reproduced consistently across the type, reflecting the limited literacy of mint workers of the period.