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Denier - Egilbert of Ortenburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1079-1101 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bust of the archbishop facing right, depicted in a stylized Romanesque manner with prominent facial features including a beaded collar or vestment at the neck. The effigy is set within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by a partially legible Latin legend along the outer border. The die-cutting displays the characteristic crude but expressive workmanship of 11th-century Rhenish ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Egilbert served as Archbishop of Trier during one of the most fractious periods of medieval German politics — the Investiture Controversy, in which Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV fought bitterly over the right to appoint church officials. Trier's mint rights, confirmed and exercised through this period, placed the archbishops squarely within the imperial monetary system even as their ecclesiastical loyalties were under pressure from both sides.
Weiller 81 is among the scarcer documented issues of the Trier episcopal series from this reign.