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Denier immobilisé au nom de Louis IV d'Outremer croix
| Issuer | Bishopric of Langres (French States) |
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| Year | 1130-1140 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Central cross pattée enclosed within a beaded inner circle, its four cantons adorned with two small crosses, a globule, and an annulet respectively. The legend LODVICVS RE runs around the periphery in Latin characters, partially visible within the outer beaded border. The die is characteristic of the immobilised Carolingian-type denier, struck in a crude hammered style typical of 12th-century episcopal coinage from Langres. |
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| Reverse lettering | * LINGONIS CI |
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The bishops of Langres held comital authority over their territory from the late Carolingian period, giving them the right to strike coin — and the habit of doing so in the name of long-dead Carolingian kings long after those kings were gone. This piece perpetuates the name of Louis IV, who died in 954, struck nearly two centuries after his reign. The practice wasn't nostalgia; it was deliberate conservatism designed to maintain the coin's acceptability in local trade by invoking a familiar, trusted type.
Langres was among several French ecclesiastical mints that froze their coinage in exactly this way through the eleventh and into the twelfth century.