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Denier - Benedict VI / Benedict VII and emperor Otto I / Otto II temple
| Issuer | Papal States |
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| Year | 973-983 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ OTTO IMPER ROMA (Translation: Otto, emperor of the Romans.) |
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The decade this coin spans saw Rome convulsed by factional violence. Benedict VI was strangled in Castel Sant'Angelo in 974 on orders of the Crescentii family, who installed their own antipope, Boniface Franco, before imperial pressure restored legitimate succession under Benedict VII. The overlap of two pontificates and two Ottonian emperors within a single coin type is not administrative convenience — it reflects how rapidly authority changed hands in this period and how dependent the papacy remained on German military backing to function at all.
Attribution between CNI XV#5 and #6 hinges on subtle die differences that remain contested among specialists.