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Denier - Ithier
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Arles |
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| Year | 963-981 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Arles |
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Ithier (or Itier) held the archiepiscopal see of Arles from around 963 to 981, a period when Carolingian central authority had collapsed entirely and ecclesiastical lords routinely exercised the minting rights that came bundled with comital or quasi-comital powers in the south. Arles sat at a genuinely contested junction — the Kingdom of Burgundy-Provence had passed to Rudolph III's predecessors only a generation earlier, and the city's archbishop minted not as a courtesy but as a practical necessity for local commerce along the Rhône delta.
The PA#4085 variety designation signals meaningful die differences from the type coin — worth cross-referencing against Duplessy's féodales entry 1732 before attributing.