Dinero vegetable ornaments,cross

The dineros of the County of Girona occupy an awkward historiographical space — Carolingian in monetary tradition but increasingly autonomous in practice, struck during the century when the Pyrenean counties were drifting irrevocably away from Frankish overlordship. Girona itself changed hands violently in 985 when al-Mansur sacked the city, an event that almost certainly disrupted mint operations and may account for the die inconsistencies collectors encounter across this type.

Cru#68 is among the lighter examples in the Catalan medieval series, reflecting chronic silver shortages that plagued regional mints throughout the tenth and early eleventh centuries.