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Denier - Moneyer Aribaldus Poitiers
| Issuer | Kingdom of Aquitaine (Frankish Kingdoms) |
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| Year | 670-710 |
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| Diameter | 12.5 mm |
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| Reverse description | A plain cross with a foot resting on the letter I occupies the centre of the field, with two pellets disposed in each of the four quarters, forming a symmetrical decorative arrangement characteristic of Merovingian deniers. The moneyer's name legend + ARIBALDO M, identifying the issuing moneyer Aribaldus, is distributed around the periphery in debased Latin majuscules on the irregular hammered flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | + ARIBALDO M |
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Poitiers was among the most active minting centers in early Merovingian Gaul, and the moneyer signature here — Aribaldus — places this piece within a system where individual craftsmen held quasi-contractual authority over production, bearing personal legal responsibility for metal fineness. The moneyer's name was not decorative; it was accountability made tangible in silver.
The 670–710 window spans the period when Aquitaine was sliding from nominal Frankish subordination toward the autonomous duchy that would resist Charles Martel's campaigns in the following generation.