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Obolo - Ramon Berenguer IV
| Issuer | County of Girona |
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| Year | 1131-1162 |
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| Reference(s) | Cru#78 |
| Obverse description | Schematic draped bust of the count facing left, rendered in a crude Romanesque style typical of 12th-century Catalan coinage. The hair is indicated by parallel engraved lines at the top of the head, and two trailing ribbons or fillets extend behind the neck. The facial features — eye, nose, and mouth — are rendered as simple punched or incised elements within the small flan. No legend is present on this half-denomination. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ramon Berenguer IV never formally held the title of king despite ruling territories that dwarfed many contemporary kingdoms. His 1137 betrothal to Petronilla of Aragon — she was roughly two years old at the time — unified the County of Barcelona with the Crown of Aragon under a dynastic arrangement that left the comital title technically intact. These billon fractions circulated through that transitional period, facilitating small commerce in a polity that was constitutionally ambiguous almost by design.
At 0.2 g, production losses to die misalignment and flan fragmentation were considerable. Cru#78 survivors with full flans are meaningfully scarcer than the type numbers suggest.