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Groschen - Martin V
| Issuer | Comtat Venaissin |
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| Year | 1417-1431 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Pope Martin V enthroned facing, depicted in full pontifical vestments upon a leonine throne, his right hand raised in the gesture of benediction and his left hand clasping a cruciform pastoral staff. The figure is rendered in the flat, schematic style characteristic of early fifteenth-century hammered coinage. The papal legend encircles the central device within a beaded inner border. The composition reflects the hieratic iconographic tradition common to pontifical issues of the Avignon and post-Avignon periods. |
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| Obverse lettering | MARTINVS - .PP. QVINTVS. (Translation: Martin V, great pontiff.) |
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Martin V's election at the Council of Constance in 1417 ended nearly forty years of schism during which rival claimants had fragmented papal finances and administration. The Comtat Venaissin — the papal enclave in Provence, distinct from Avignon itself — resumed stable coinage under his authority almost immediately, this groschen belonging to the earliest phase of that reconsolidation. Billon issues from the Comtat are routinely underrepresented in major collections; the territory's mint output was modest and regionally absorbed, leaving few pieces in the broader numismatic record.