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Denier - Berthold in name of Henry II
| Issuer | Bishopric of Toul |
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| Year | 1002-1019 |
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| Weight | 1.1 g |
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| Reverse description | A bold cross potent occupies the central field, with a pellet placed in each of the four angles formed by the arms of the cross. The entire cross design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, itself surrounded by the episcopal issuer's legend in Latin capitals. The overall execution is characteristic of hammered ecclesiastical deniers of the early Salian period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Berthold I served as Bishop of Toul from 996 to 1019, operating under the nominal authority of Henry II — the Holy Roman Emperor later canonized in 1146. Toul was one of the three imperial bishoprics of Lorraine, and its bishops held comital rights over coinage as a direct grant of the crown. Striking in the emperor's name was not submission but political theater; it legitimized the bishop's mint rights while reinforcing the fiction of centralized Ottonian monetary control that was already fragmenting by this period.