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Denier anonyme au nom du roi Otton III
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 983-996 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Otton III became Holy Roman Emperor at age three following his father's death in 983, making him one of the youngest rulers to have coinage struck in his name. The Magdeburg archbishopric held minting rights granted under Otto I, who founded the see in 968 specifically as a missionary base into Slavic territories east of the Elbe. These anonymous deniers — issued under the king's name rather than any named archbishop — reflect the ambiguous authority of a regency period during which his mother Theophanu and later his grandmother Adelaide governed on his behalf.
The Kluge and Dannenberg references place this type firmly within the transitional coinage of the Ottonian east, where episcopal mints regularly outlasted the political circumstances that created them.