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Denier In the name of Ansgar
| Issuer | Abbey of Corbie |
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| Year | 1100-1200 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features an upright crosier with the Greek letters alpha (Α) and omega (Ω) displayed in the flanking fields, evoking abbatial authority. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. A Latin legend surrounds the central motif along the outer border, reading clockwise from a cross pattée stop. The strike is characteristic of 12th-century French feudal hammered coinage, with irregular flan edges typical of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Corbie's minting rights trace back to a Carolingian grant, but invoking Ansgar — the ninth-century missionary archbishop who evangelized Scandinavia and spent his early years at Corbie — was a deliberate act of institutional prestige, not mere piety. By the twelfth century, abbeys across northern France were competing aggressively to assert comital-level monetary authority, and placing a venerated founder's name on the coinage was one way to anchor that claim in sacred precedent rather than secular politics.
The Boudeau variety designation signals meaningful die differences within this type — not all examples are alike.