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Denier anonyme

Issuer Bishopric of Constance
Year 1050-1100
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Value 1 Denier
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage ND (1050-1100)
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The Bishopric of Constance was among the most powerful ecclesiastical territories in the medieval German lands, controlling a diocese that stretched from Lake Constance deep into modern Switzerland. Anonymous episcopal deniers of this period were struck under the authority of bishops who held imperial coinage rights — a privilege confirmed and contested repeatedly through the Investiture Controversy, which erupted in full force precisely within this date range.

Kluge Kar#492 places this piece within a closely argued typological sequence; anonymous attribution is the rule rather than the exception for Constance issues of this century, as episcopal mints rarely named their bishop on the die.

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