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Dinero angel, blades
| Issuer | County of Girona |
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| Year | 934-1035 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Standing haloed angel depicted in full figure, facing left, with right hand raised in a gesture of benediction or blessing. The figure is rendered in a highly stylized, flat manner typical of Carolingian-influenced Catalan ecclesiastical coinage. The wings are spread and visible behind the figure. A beaded border runs along the coin's periphery. The field is largely plain, with no accompanying legend. |
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The County of Girona operated as a de facto independent Carolingian successor state during this period, nominally subordinate to the Frankish crown but functionally autonomous under its own counts. Coinage rights — a jealously controlled Carolingian prerogative — were exercised locally here well before any formal grant, a pattern repeated across the Spanish March as Frankish central authority collapsed through the tenth century. The "blades" variety designation in Crusafont's typology reflects a die characteristic, not a design choice, distinguishing this subtype from otherwise near-identical parallel issues of the county.