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Denier - Adalrich II
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1025-1040 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse lettering | +(ODELRICVS) EPS |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Adalrich II served as Bishop of Basel from around 1025 to 1040, a period when the Salian dynasty was consolidating its grip on the German church through aggressive appointment of loyal ecclesiastics. The right to strike coin was a jealously guarded episcopal privilege in this region, and Basel's position on the Rhine made its mint commercially significant well beyond local use.
HMZ 1#190b is among the scarcer documented varieties of this reign.