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Denier - Adalrich II
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1025-1040 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Stylized schematic representation of a church or cathedral facade rendered in a highly abstracted architectural manner, featuring a central tower or portal flanked by subsidiary elements suggestive of nave walls and towers, consistent with the Ottonian episcopal coinage tradition. The building motif is executed in bold relief with simplified, almost hieroglyphic forms. A circular legend surrounds the architectural device, reading +ADELRIC. The overall composition is centrally placed on the irregularly shaped flan. |
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Adalrich II served as Bishop of Basel from roughly 1025 to 1040, a period when Rhenish episcopal mints operated under direct imperial grant — in this case, a minting privilege confirmed under the Salian dynasty. Basel's position at the Rhine crossing made its mint commercially significant well beyond the diocese itself. The HMZ 1-190a attribution places this firmly within the early Swiss coinage corpus, though surviving examples are sparse enough that die studies remain inconclusive on precise emission sequences.