Denier - Anonymous

Fritzlar's claim to monetary authority in this period rested on the presence of a royal palace and its status as one of the most politically significant ecclesiastical centers in Ottonian Saxony — Charlemagne had ordered the town's famous oak felled there in 723, and the site never lost its symbolic weight. Anonymous deniers of this type are notoriously difficult to attribute with precision; the "var." designation against Hävernick 111 signals a die combination or minor detail that places it outside the catalogued norm without sufficient documentation to earn its own number.