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Obole - anonyme
| Issuer | Bishopric of Viviers (French States) |
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| Year | 1326-1365 |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Reverse description | A broad plain cross with extended arms occupies the full field, its limbs again cutting into the surrounding circular legend. The partial inscription °VIVAR references Vivarium (Viviers), identifying the episcopal mint. The surfaces show significant wear and a rough flan edge typical of small-denomination hammered billon coinage. The reverse composition mirrors the obverse, with both faces presenting an essentially identical cross motif framed by a partial Latin legend. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Bishopric of Viviers occupied an ambiguous political position throughout the fourteenth century — nominally within the Holy Roman Empire's Burgundian borderlands yet deeply entangled with French royal influence, a tension that shaped its coinage authority. Anonymous issues like this obole, bearing no bishop's name, were a deliberate choice: episcopal mints periodically suppressed identifying legends to sidestep royal ordinances regulating seigneurial coinage. The dating window 1326–1365 spans four bishops, and no die study has yet attributed this type to a specific pontificate with certainty.