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Denier saint
| Issuer | Besalu, County of |
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| Year | 1052-1066 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized open hand with five spread fingers, rendered in low relief in the hammered medieval manner, with a small pellet at the base of the palm. The hand motif rises from a short stem or base, filling the flan. The circular legend BISILDVNO surrounds the central device, referencing the county seat of Besalú, partially visible along the inner border of the irregular flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | BISILDVNO (Translation: Besalú) |
| Reverse description | Full-length facing figure of a saint, identified by the accompanying legend as Saint Raphael, depicted in long draped robes with a nimbus or elaborate headdress, holding a cross-staff in the right hand and an object in the left. The figure is rendered in the Romanesque artistic style typical of 11th-century Catalan feudal coinage, with schematic drapery folds. The abbreviated legend S R flanks the figure in the field. |
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