Denier - Bernard II Hiltagesburg

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.