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Denier - John of Geneva
| Issuer | Bishoprics of Valence and Die |
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| Year | 1285-1297 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ✠⁑IOhANЄS⁑ЄPISCOP⁑ (Translation: John, bishop...) |
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John of Geneva held the joint bishopric of Valence and Die from 1282, a pairing that had been administratively united since the mid-twelfth century under imperial and then French overlordship. These billon deniers were struck under the monetary rights the bishops had exercised — with periodic interruption — since the Carolingian period. The late thirteenth century was a moment of particular friction between the bishops and the Counts of Valentinois, whose competing claims over the Drôme valley made the assertion of episcopal coinage rights as much a political act as a fiscal one.