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Denier - Conrad II Strasbourg mint
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1024-1039 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned royal effigy in profile facing left, rendered in the crude, stylized manner typical of Salian-era hammered coinage. The bust is depicted with a prominent crown bearing pellet or bead ornaments, with the facial features summarily executed in low relief. A circular legend surrounds the effigy in the field, partially legible due to the irregular flan and die wear characteristic of early medieval Rhenish deniers. |
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| Reverse lettering | ARGENTINA (Translation: Strasbourg.) |
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Conrad II's reign saw aggressive reassertion of royal prerogative over the German church, and the Strasbourg mint operated under the city's bishop — a relationship that made episcopal mints simultaneously dependent on and politically entangled with the crown. Conrad's conflict with the higher German clergy over investiture precedents, which would not fully explode until his grandson Henry IV, was already simmering in administrative form during these years.
Kluge's cataloging of this type under the Carolingian series reflects the remarkable conservatism of Ottonian-Salian coinage, where design continuity across dynasties was deliberate policy rather than inertia.