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Obolo saint

Uitgever Ausona, County of
Jaar 900-1017
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Waarde 1 Obol (1/2)
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Beschrijving voorzijde Central field bears a pattée cross contained within a solid inner circle, the cross arms radiating outward to meet the ring border. A circular legend reading AVSONA is inscribed between two concentric solid circles enclosing the central motif, preceded by a cross pommée stop. The flan is characteristically irregular, the relief low, and the die work consistent with early medieval Catalan ecclesiastical minting practice.
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Aanvullende informatie

The County of Ausona, centered on the city of Vic in inland Catalonia, issued coinage under the authority of its bishops rather than a secular count — an arrangement that made its monetary production genuinely unusual among Carolingian successor states. This obol falls within a century-long window during which the diocese exercised striking rights largely unchallenged, a privilege rooted in Carolingian grants that outlasted the political framework that created them.

At half a denarius, the obol was the smallest transactional unit in regular circulation, used heavily in market tolls and petty dues.