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Obolo Armengol X, Agramunt
| Issuer | County of Urgell |
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| Year | 1267-1314 |
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| Value | 1 Obol (1/2) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cross pattée occupying the central field, with a pellet in each of the four quarters formed by the cross arms. The design is enclosed within a plain inner circle, with the circular Latin legend running between the inner circle and the outer beaded border. The overall style is characteristic of medieval Catalan hammered billon coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Armengol X ruled Urgell during a period when the county was increasingly squeezed between the ambitions of the Crown of Aragon and the County of Foix. His coinage at Agramunt — a mint the counts of Urgell had operated since the twelfth century — reflects a diminished fiscal operation: the billon content in these obols is exceptionally low even by Catalan standards of the period, and the flan preparation shows it.
Armengol X died without legitimate heirs in 1314, extinguishing the male line entirely. The county passed through his daughter Ermengol to her husband, effectively ending Urgell's independence as a minting authority within a generation.