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Denier - Godefroid III Leer
| Issuer | Lower Lotharingia, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1065-1069 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Reverse description | Stylized architectural representation of a church or city gate façade, depicted in Romanesque style with a central arched portal flanked by columns or towers, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The structure is rendered schematically as was typical of 11th-century Lotharingian deniers, referencing the mint city of Chimay. The surrounding Latin legend identifies the issuing civitas. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Godefroid III, called "the Hunchback," ruled Lower Lotharingia as a vassal of Henry IV during one of the most turbulent stretches of German imperial politics in the eleventh century. His tenure lasted barely four years before his assassination in 1069 — stabbed while using a latrine at Verdun, in an attack widely attributed to political enemies in the ongoing struggle between the emperor and regional nobility. The coinage of Leer falls entirely within this narrow, violent window.