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Denier - Sint-Truiden Abbey
| Issuer | Sint-Truiden Abbey (Abbey of Saint Trudo) |
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| Year | 1100-1125 |
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| Weight | 0.64 g |
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| Obverse lettering | SCS· STEPHANVS (Translation: Saint Stephen.) |
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| Mintage | ND (1100-1125) |
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Sint-Truiden Abbey held the right to strike coin by imperial grant, but that privilege was perpetually contested — the bishops of Metz, who held overlordship over the abbey's temporal affairs, clashed repeatedly with the monks over fiscal autonomy throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Issues from this narrow window fall during the abbacy of a house that had already survived Viking raids, a devastating fire in 1975 — the monastery's records for this period are fragmentary at best. The Ilisch classification alone places this type within a tightly argued regional sequence that distinguishes it from superficially similar Liège-area products by subtle metrological drift.