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.
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.