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Denier - Albero of Montreuil
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1131-1152 |
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| Weight | 0.83 g |
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| Reverse description | Two hands issuing from either side of the field, each grasping one of the two Keys of Saint Peter, the papal symbol closely associated with the See of Trier. The keys are depicted in a stylized, symmetrical arrangement characteristic of 12th-century ecclesiastical coinage. The composition fills the central field without inscription, rendered in the same schematic Romanesque manner as the obverse. |
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| Mint | Trier |
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Albero of Montreuil, Archbishop of Trier from 1131 to 1152, was among the most politically aggressive prelates of his generation — a kingmaker who backed Lothair III against the Hohenstaufen and later maneuvered Conrad III into a corner over Trier's ecclesiastical privileges. His coinage reflects the archbishopric's insistence on temporal as well as spiritual authority in the Moselle region, where the archbishops of Trier had exercised mint rights since the Carolingian period. Weiller 127 is the standard reference attribution for this type.