Description
Silver Denarius Feudal Lordship of Béarn The Centulles Century IX-XI (16F)
Weight: 0.83 grams
Diameter:18.3 mm
The denier (Latin: denarius; abbr. d.) or penny was a medieval coin which takes its name from the Frankish coin first issue in the late seventh century. In English it is sometimes referre to as a silver penny. Its appearance represents the end of gold coinage, which, at the start of Frankish rule, had either been Byzantine or “pseudo-imperial” (minted by the Franks in imitation of Byzantine coinage). Silver would be the basis for Frankish coinage from then on. The denier was minte in France and parts of the Italian peninsula for the whole of the Middle Ages. In states such as the patriarchate of Aquileia, the Kingdom of Sicily, the Republic of Genoa, and the Republic of Siena, among others.
