Dinero tree

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.