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Denier type au rateau à quatre dents sur flan vierge
| Issuer | Bonifacio, City of |
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| Year | 1282-1453 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Central device consisting of a comb or rake motif with four downward-pointing teeth, enclosed within a shield-shaped border composed of a succession of grenetis (beaded circles). The overall composition is primitive in execution, consistent with medieval municipal coinage struck on an unworked blank (flan vierge). No legend or inscription is present in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (1282-1453) |
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Bonifacio's civic coinage was a direct consequence of the city's unusual political status — a Genoese colony perched on the southern tip of Corsica that maintained enough autonomy to strike its own copper issues for local exchange. The rake-type denier, struck on a blank flan without prior preparation, reflects the bare-minimum infrastructure of a small municipal mint operating at the margins of medieval Mediterranean commerce. The "flan vierge" designation signals an unstruck planchet used as-is, a telling detail about production conditions in a garrison town that was under Aragonese siege as recently as 1420.