Denier - Bernold Deventer

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Beschrijving keerzijde	A bold pattee cross with slightly expanding arms occupies the center of the inner circle, with a large pellet placed in each of the four quadrants, all enclosed within a plain raised ring. The composition is clean and symmetrical, typical of mid-11th century episcopal deniers of the Low Countries. A partial circular Latin legend runs through the outer field surrounding the inner circle.
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Oplage	ND (1046-1054)
Aanvullende informatie	Bernold was bishop of Utrecht from 1027 to 1054, but this denier dates to the narrower window when Henry III's imperial authority was at its most direct — the years following the Council of Sutri in 1046, which Henry used to depose three rival claimants to the papacy simultaneously. Bernold was a committed Ottonian-Salian loyalist, and the coinage struck at Deventer during his episcopate reflects that alignment closely. Deventer was one of the more productive mint sites under Utrecht's ecclesiastical authority in this period.