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Denier - Henry I
| Issuer | Bavaria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 948-955 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | A bold pattée cross occupies the center of the field, with a pellet placed in each of the four quadrants formed by the cross arms. The central motif is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, around which the ruler's legend is arranged. The inscription reads HEINRICVS DVX in retrograde or irregular Latin characters, distributed around the periphery in the manner typical of early medieval Bavarian deniers. The hammered flan imparts an irregular outline characteristic of 10th-century coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | HEINRICVS DVX |
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Henry I of Bavaria — son of Heinrich the Quarrelsome's rival and himself a duke of considerable ambition — ruled during the precise years when Ottonian royal authority was pressing hardest against regional ducal power. These deniers were struck in the brief window between his assumption of the duchy and his death in 955, the same year Otto I crushed the Magyars at the Lechfeld, a battle in which Bavarian contingents played a central role.
Hahn's Regensburg attribution places production almost certainly at the ducal mint there.