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Denier - Burchard II avec empereur Henri IV
| Issuer | Bishopric of Halberstadt |
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| Year | 1059-1088 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | A plain cross occupies the central field, flanked by the bishop's name arranged in two parts on either side. The entire design is enclosed within a double beaded (grenetis) border, with a circular legend running around the periphery. The inscription reads BVCCO + HALVERSTIDI, identifying Bishop Burchard II of Halberstadt. The lettering is rendered in the Romanesque epigraphic style characteristic of late 11th-century ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Burchard II held the see of Halberstadt from 1059 to 1088, a tenure that placed him squarely inside the Investiture Controversy — the defining power struggle between papal and imperial authority over the appointment of bishops. He remained an imperial loyalist throughout, backing Henry IV against Gregory VII even as the conflict fractured the German episcopate. The inclusion of the emperor on this coinage was a deliberate statement of that allegiance.
Henry IV's excommunication in 1076 and his famous submission at Canossa in 1077 did nothing to shake Burchard's position.