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Denier - Hartwig
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1079-1102 |
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| Obverse lettering | +HARTVIGA S |
| Reverse description | Stylized three-towered city wall or fortified gateway representing the city of Magdeburg, rendered in a schematic Romanesque manner typical of 11th-century episcopal coinage. The central tower rises above two flanking towers, all depicted with decorative crenellations and architectural detailing. The circumferential legend +MAGADEBVRG identifies the mint city and encircles the architectural device. |
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Hartwig of Goseck served as Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1079 until his death in 1102, a tenure defined largely by his entanglement in the Investiture Controversy — the bitter dispute between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV over the right to appoint church officials. Magdeburg's strategic position on the eastern frontier of the Reich made its archbishop's allegiance militarily consequential, not merely ecclesiastical.
Kluge Kar#430 places this denier within a documented sequence of episcopal coinage from the archbishopric's mint, which held striking rights as a formal grant of imperial privilege.