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I will never rest with having been so thoroughly trounced by spence! So I am driven to continue accumulating deniers to redeem myself!
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My collecting themes mean I occasionally pick up a few more items that fit here.

Take your pick, but here goes...
A Flanders "kleine denarius" or "petit denier" c. 1140-1180, unknown mint. possibly Arras, moneyer Simon, whose name is around the edge reverse:

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Very nice addition, tdziemia.
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Excellent, tdziemia!
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Sorry the first picture is a bit blurry; hand held photos don't go so well on an 11 mm coin )...
In the center at left and right are two stylized fleur-de-lis pointing toward each other. A star above, and a crescent below. Reverse, most of the legend + S I M O N can be seen. It's believed the moneyer was in Arras (in modern France, but then in Flanders), based on prevalence of this type in hoards, and other facts of numismatic history in that region.
In the book Les Petits Deniers de Flandre des XIIe et XIIIe Siecles, Ghyssens identifes 20 variants on this general type (#101-120). I think mine is #106.

Next, an unusual Polish denar from the reign of Boleslaw IV. The unusual depiction of the king as a sort of Byzantine-style emperor, is believed to date the coin to 1157 or a bit later, and a tribute agreement with Frederick I. Kopicki 58.

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Another nice one!
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Nice addition, tdziemia.
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