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Dinero saint
| Issuer | County of Ausona |
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| Year | 900-1017 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Schematic bust of Saint Peter facing left, depicted in a rudimentary style typical of early medieval Iberian hammered deniers, enclosed within a raised solid inner circle. The letters S and P flank the bust to the left and right respectively, serving as an abbreviated invocation of the patron saint. The portrait is rendered with minimal detail, showing a draped neckline and a broad, roughly modelled head, consistent with the crude engraving conventions of tenth- to eleventh-century Catalan ecclesiastical coinage. |
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The County of Ausona, centered on Vic in what is now Catalonia, issued coinage independently before its absorption into the County of Barcelona — a process formalized when count Bermon died without heirs in 1017, collapsing the line. These small silver pieces circulated in a fragmented political zone where Carolingian overlordship had effectively dissolved and local lords exercised full fiscal authority by the tenth century.
Cruïlles 35 is among the rarer documented Catalan pre-feudal types; surviving examples are few, reflecting both low original mintage and the coin's extended circulation window across more than a century of use.