Catalog
Denier saint
| Issuer | Besalu, County of |
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| Year | 1052-1066 |
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| Currency | Dinero |
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| Reverse description | Full-length facing figure of a saint, identified by the accompanying legend as Saint Raphael, depicted in long draped robes with a nimbus or elaborate headdress, holding a cross-staff in the right hand and an object in the left. The figure is rendered in the Romanesque artistic style typical of 11th-century Catalan feudal coinage, with schematic drapery folds. The abbreviated legend S R flanks the figure in the field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Besalú was one of the smaller Catalan counties but maintained its own mint with notable tenacity. The county's coinage rights were bound up in the complex feudal web linking it simultaneously to the Crown of Aragon's predecessors and the Frankish sphere, and the deniers struck under Count Guillem II during this period reflect that ambiguity. Besalú was absorbed into the County of Barcelona in 1111 following the death of Count Bernat III without an heir, ending its independent monetary output entirely.