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Denier - Bernard II Hiltagesburg
| Issuer | Saxony, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1011-1059 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (936-1296) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A stylized architectural structure, likely representing a church or fortified gate, is depicted in frontal elevation at the centre of the field, consistent with the Ottonian and Salian-era tradition of rendering ecclesiastical or civic buildings on bracteate-related deniers. The building features a prominent arched doorway, flanked by towers or columns, and is rendered with bold, schematic lines typical of eleventh-century hammered coinage. The surrounding circular legend reads +HILTAGAESBVRG, identifying the mint place of Hiltagesburg (modern Hitzacker or a related Saxon locality), with a Latin cross preceding the inscription. |
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Bernard II ruled Saxony during a period when ducal coinage was fragmenting across dozens of local minting centers, and Hiltagesburg — now identified with Haldensleben — operated as one of the minor Saxon ducal mints asserting regional monetary authority in the decades following Henry II's conflicts with the Saxon nobility. Kluge's classification of this type places it within a group of deniers whose attribution to specific rulers long remained contested, with earlier scholarship assigning several now-separated types to Bernard I before die analysis and hoard evidence clarified the chronology.