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Denier - Adalrich II
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1025-1040 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (999-1122) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Irregular hammered flan displaying a prominent long cross at center, dividing the inner field into four quarters each containing a small annulet or pellet, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. To the left of the beaded circle, a stylized episcopal or royal bust is depicted in crude outline facing left, consistent with early 11th-century Rhenish denier typology. A fragmentary legend, partially legible as ... E +, runs along the outer margin in rough Latin capitals. |
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Adalrich II held the see of Basel from 1025 to 1040 under the close patronage of Conrad II and Henry III, the Salian emperors who aggressively consolidated episcopal minting rights as instruments of imperial fiscal policy. The right to strike coin at Basel had been granted to the bishopric by Otto I in 999, and Adalrich's issues fall within the period when that privilege was actively exercised rather than merely nominal.
HMZ 1#191F places this within the tightly catalogued Swiss episcopal denier sequence, where die-link studies have helped attribute otherwise anonymous-looking pieces to specific reigns.