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Denier
| Issuer | Bishopric of Worms |
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| Year | 1120-1149 |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Reverse description | A bold cross pattée occupies the central field, its splayed arms extending nearly to the coin's inner border. A single pellet is placed in each of the four quarters formed by the cross arms, creating a symmetrical quartered composition. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border of uniform pellets arranged around the circumference, consistent with the Romanesque hammered coinage style of the Bishopric of Worms during the first half of the twelfth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Bishopric of Worms occupied an acutely contested position during this precise period — the Investiture Controversy had only been settled by the Concordat of Worms in 1122, a compromise hammered out in the city itself that ended decades of warfare between the papacy and the Holy Roman Emperor over the right to appoint clergy. The bishop's authority to strike coin was among the temporal privileges at the heart of that dispute. This denier belongs to the generation immediately following that settlement, issued by a see still reasserting its rights.