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Denier - Conrad II
| Issuer | Arnsberg, County of |
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| Year | 1077-1092 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A plain cross dividing the field into four quarters, each cantoned with a grouping of bezants; the second quarter bears a barley grain-shaped bezant in addition to the spherical pellets. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with additional decorative elements visible in the outer border. The legend is distributed in segments across the four quadrants formed by the cross arms. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Conrad II ruled Arnsberg during a period when the Investiture Controversy was fracturing imperial authority across the German lands, and lesser lords — counts included — exploited the chaos to assert independent minting rights they had no formal grant to exercise. The Arnsberg deniers of this period are products of exactly that opportunism.
Kluge Kar#306 is sparsely documented in the secondary literature, and surviving examples are genuinely scarce.