Dinero angel, blades

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.