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| Emittent | Flanders, County of |
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| Jahr | 1092-1111 |
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| Ausrichtung | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Central field depicts a stylized bishop's bust or mitre-like figure in high relief, rendered in a crude Romanesque style characteristic of late 11th-century Flemish coinage. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, beyond which radiate decorative lines or rays dividing the outer field into segments. The overall composition is typical of ecclesiastical-type deniers struck in the name of Saint Vaast (Vedastus), patron of Arras. The legend VEDASTVS, referencing the saint, runs in the surrounding field. The irregular flan and variable strike are consistent with hand-hammered production of the period. |
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| Reversschrift | Latin |
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Robert II of Flanders earned his epithet "the Jerusalemite" by joining the First Crusade in 1096, distinguishing himself at the siege of Antioch and the fall of Jerusalem the following year. His absence from Flanders lasted roughly three years, during which comital administration — and minting at Arras — continued under existing arrangements. Coins struck across his reign therefore span the most dramatic military episode in eleventh-century northern Europe.
Arras functioned as the principal mint of the county during this period, its output reflecting Flemish commercial density rather than any commemorative impulse.