Denier - John XI palm trees

John XI held the papacy under extraordinary constraint — his pontificate was effectively controlled by his half-brother Alberic II, who seized temporal power in Rome in 932 and reduced the pope to purely ceremonial religious functions. Whether coins issued under his name reflect genuine papal monetary authority or Alberic's administration is a question the numismatic record cannot cleanly answer. This denier sits at that precise fault line.

The CNI XV gap reference signals no recorded specimen in that corpus at time of publication — a meaningful absence for a type that Muntoni could at least partially document.