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Denier - Conrad II Cologne area, fisherman, type 1
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1024-1039 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Cologne |
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Conrad II's accession in 1024 marked the transition from the Ottonian to the Salian dynasty — a political rupture that made asserting imperial monetary authority across the German duchies an immediate priority. Cologne was among the most productive minting centers in the empire at the time, and deniers attributable to Conrad's reign there form a numerically modest but typologically complex group. The "fisherman" classification within Kluge's corpus distinguishes this type from contemporaneous Cologne issues by specific iconographic conventions now cataloged rather than visually described here.