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Denier - Raynard II
| Issuer | Sens, County of |
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| Year | 1015-1055 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ RAINARdVS COmES (Translation: Count Raynard.) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Raynard II held the county of Sens during a period when Capetian authority in the Île-de-France remained contested and local magnates retained meaningful autonomy over minting rights. The deniers struck under his name belong to a regional billon coinage that circulated primarily within the ecclesiastical and commercial networks anchored at Sens, one of the oldest archiepiscopal seats in France. PA#5904 places this type within Poey d'Avant's mid-eleventh century grouping for the county, though attributions within the Sens sequence have historically been complicated by die-sharing and overlapping types across successive comital issues.