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Denier - Brunon de Bretten ange
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1102-1124 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of an angel depicted in a schematic Romanesque style, with wings spread and arms raised, set within a beaded border (grenetis). The figure's drapery and feathered wings are rendered with incised linear detail characteristic of early 12th-century hammered coinage. A circular legend surrounds the central device. |
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| Reverse lettering | TREVERIS |
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Bruno von Bretten served as Archbishop of Trier during a period when the archbishopric was deeply entangled in the Investiture Controversy — the protracted struggle between the papacy and the Holy Roman emperors over the right to appoint church officials. Bruno navigated carefully between imperial and papal factions, a political tightrope that defined his entire episcopate. Trier's mint rights, among the oldest in the German-speaking world, derived from a Carolingian grant, and the denier type reflects that long-established regalian authority exercised by the see.