Denier - Henry IV

Henry IV of Bavaria is better known to history as Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor — he assumed the duchy in 983 as a minor and ruled it until 1002, when his election as King of Germany effectively ended his tenure as a regional duke. The Bavarian deniers of this period were issued under a fragmented minting authority, with episcopal and ducal mints operating in uneasy parallel across the region.

Hahn Radas 25c8 places this piece within a closely studied die-linked group of Bavarian deniers documented by Wolfgang Hahn's exhaustive work on early medieval Bavarian coinage — the variety suffix indicating a specific obverse or reverse die pairing within that classification.