Denier - Henry II Archdiocese of Salzburg

Henry II granted the Archdiocese of Salzburg expanded minting rights in the early eleventh century as part of his broader policy of consolidating ecclesiastical authority within the empire — a strategy that made the great German bishoprics economically formidable and politically loyal. Salzburg's archbishops had held coinage privileges since the Carolingian period, but this issue represents one of the earliest datable exercises of those rights under the Ottonian-to-Salian transition.

CNA#A3a is among the foundational references for early medieval Austrian ecclesiastical coinage, with surviving specimens disproportionately found in central European hoard contexts.