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Denier - Erlolf de Bergholz
| Issuer | Abbey of Fulda |
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| Year | 1114-1122 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Facing left bust of Abbot Erlolf, depicted with a tonsured head in ecclesiastical style, a pastoral crosier held upright before him. The legend ERLOLFVS runs around the field in Latin characters, identifying the issuing abbot. The relief is shallow and characteristic of early medieval hammered bracteate-style deniers from the Fulda mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Erlolf served as Abbot of Fulda from 1114 to 1122, presiding over a house with centuries of minting rights but persistent tension with the local nobility over temporal authority. Fulda's coinage during this period reflects a broader fragmentation of monetary production across the German ecclesiastical lordships following the Investiture Controversy, which had spent decades destabilizing the relationship between abbeys and imperial oversight.
Kluge Kar#474 is not a common attribution — Fulda abbatial deniers from individual reigns in this narrow window survive in very limited numbers across public collections.