Dinero vegetable ornaments, bust

The County of Girona operated as a nominally Frankish-dependent march county during this period, though by the mid-tenth century its counts were issuing coinage on their own authority with little practical oversight from the increasingly fragmented Carolingian successor states. These small silver dineros reflect the monetary fragmentation of the Iberian march counties, each operating its own mint as Frankish central authority dissolved entirely after 987.

At 0.3g, surviving examples are frequently found clipped or fragmentary — a known problem with Catalan march coinage of this weight class that circulated hard alongside heavier Andalusian silver.