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Gold Guilder - Steven II of La Garde
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Arles |
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| Year | 1351-1361 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Saint John the Baptist standing in high relief, robed in a finely hatched garment, his right hand raised in benediction and his left hand holding a cross-staff. The saint is nimbed, with the head positioned beneath a small decorative cross at the top of the field. A circular Latin legend surrounds the figure, separated from the central device by a beaded inner border, with a six-pointed star serving as the legend's initial mark. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Steven II of La Garde held the see of Arles from 1351 to 1361, a period when the archbishopric retained the right to strike gold coinage despite Provence's increasingly complex political alignment between the Angevin counts and the papacy at nearby Avignon. Ecclesiastical mints in the region were under persistent pressure to conform their gold to the weight standard of the royal and papal issues circulating around them, which accounts for the close fineness of this piece to contemporary French royal gold.
Steven himself remains a minor figure in the episcopal record, and relatively little survives in the way of documentary evidence about the output or administration of his mint.