Denier - Conrad II Mainz mint, cross

Conrad II's election as Holy Roman Emperor in 1024 followed a disputed succession after the death of Henry II, who left no heir. The Mainz archbishopric held considerable minting authority during this period, operating under imperial grant rather than purely ecclesiastical privilege — a distinction that generated ongoing jurisdictional friction between the archbishops and the imperial court throughout the eleventh century.

Dann Sa#790 is a well-documented type within the Salian coinage corpus, though die variation across Conrad's fifteen-year reign means attribution of individual specimens sometimes relies on subtle metrological differences rather than visual diagnostics alone.