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Denier - Immobilization of Fulk V under the Plantegenets
| Issuer | Anjou, County of |
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| Year | 1151-1204 |
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| Reference(s) | PA#1494, Dy féodales#378 |
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| Obverse script | Greek, Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1151-1204) |
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When the Angevin counts became kings of England and rulers of a sprawling continental empire, the coinage of Anjou did not follow their ambitions — it froze. This denier perpetuates the type of Fulk V, who had abdicated the county in 1129 to become King of Jerusalem, locking his monetary image in place decades before this coin was struck. The practice of immobilization was deliberate policy: stability of type projected continuity of comital authority even as real power shifted north to Plantagenet hands.
Production continued under Geoffrey Plantagenet and then Henry II through to the loss of Anjou to Philip II Augustus in 1204.