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Dinero tree
| Issuer | Ausona, County of |
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| Year | 1102-1109 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | Stylized standing figure of Saint Peter depicted in a frontal, hieratic Romanesque manner, holding his attributes, with the abbreviated legend S P (Sanctus Petrus) flanking the figure in the field. The flan is irregular with uneven strike, characteristic of hammered coinage of the period. The crude artistic rendering reflects the rudimentary minting practices of the early 12th-century County of Ausona. |
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| Reverse lettering | S P (Translation: Saint Peter) |
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Ausona — modern Vic, in Catalonia — issued coinage under its counts as a function of local fiscal autonomy that the Carolingian administrative framework had entrenched deeply enough to survive well into the feudal period. The specific window of 1102–1109 corresponds to the authority of Count Ermengol VI of Urgell acting over the territory, a man more occupied with Reconquista campaigns in the Tagus valley than with monetary administration. These tiny silver coins circulated within a fragmented system where a dozen Catalan counties each struck their own issues, often indistinguishable to anyone outside the immediate region.