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Denier - Berthold I
| Issuer | Zähringen, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1024-1078 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (retrograde) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a stylized architectural or ecclesiastical motif, likely a schematic representation of a building facade or church, rendered within a beaded inner circle and surrounded by an ornamental border. The design elements include vertical and horizontal linear structures suggesting columns or towers, characteristic of the Ottonian-Salian artistic tradition in German coinage. The field shows traces of additional decorative ornaments flanking the central motif. The hammered flan exhibits the typical uneven surface and irregular outline expected of mid-11th-century southern German deniers. |
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Berthold I received the title Duke of Carinthia in 1061, though he was expelled from the duchy by 1077 after backing the wrong side in the Investiture Controversy — siding with Pope Gregory VII against Henry IV. His family's lasting base was the Black Forest region, and the deniers issued under his authority reflect a marginal Swabian lordship still asserting comital monetary rights during a period when such privileges were actively contested by imperial and ecclesiastical powers alike.