Catalog
Dinero Christ
| Issuer | County of Girona |
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| Year | 934-1035 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A plain cross occupies the central field, its arms extending toward the inner beaded circle. The legend GIRVNDA is disposed around the cross between two concentric beaded circles, rendered in crude but legible Latin capitals characteristic of early medieval Catalan hammered coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the edges, typical of hand-struck dineros of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The County of Girona operated as a Frankish march county, its coinage authority derived from Carolingian administrative structures that persisted long after the Carolingian dynasty itself had collapsed in France. These small silver issues circulated in a frontier zone where Christian and Andalusian economic spheres overlapped directly, and Islamic dirhams frequently moved through the same markets.
Cru#59 is attributed across a century-long span precisely because the county's minting practice changed little between counts — a deliberate conservatism that makes individual reign attribution nearly impossible without hoard context.