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Denier - Hartwig
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1079-1102 |
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| Value | Light Denier (1/2) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1079-1102) |
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Hartwig I served as Archbishop of Magdeburg during one of the most convulsive periods in medieval German history — the Investiture Controversy, which pitted Emperor Henry IV directly against the papacy over the right to appoint church officials. Magdeburg's archbishops held both ecclesiastical and secular authority over a strategically vital see on the eastern frontier, and their coinage functioned as a direct assertion of that dual power during a period when such claims were violently contested.
The Kluge Kar#431 attribution places this piece within a documented sequence of episcopal deniers from the region, though surviving examples are scarce enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete.