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Denier - Balduin Henri III
| Issuer | Bishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1046-1056 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | Central motif depicting a schematic architectural or figural device in shallow relief, consistent with the Romanesque die-cutting conventions of mid-11th-century Salzburg. The design field shows a stylized seated or standing figure, heavily abstracted, surrounded by a partial circular Latin legend invoking the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III. The flan is irregular and the strike uneven, as is characteristic of hammered pfennigs of this period and region. |
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| Mintage | ND (1046-1056) |
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Balduin of Salzburg served as archbishop during a period of acute tension between the papacy and the Salian emperors — the early tremors of what would become the Investiture Controversy. His episcopate coincided with the reforming pontificates of Leo IX and Victor II, when questions of who held authority over ecclesiastical appointments were becoming impossible to defer. Coins struck under his name carried genuine political weight in that argument.
The Hahn Radas classification places this firmly within the Regensburg-influenced denier tradition spreading through the Bavarian ecclesiastical mints in the mid-eleventh century.