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Denier - Henry VI, Philip and Otto IV Nuremberg mint
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1190-1210 |
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| Weight | 0.88 g |
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| Obverse description | A lion passant to the left occupies the central field, rendered in the Romanesque stylistic tradition characteristic of late 12th-century imperial bracteate-influenced coinage. The outer border is decorated with four stylized floral rosettes alternating with arched segments and lily finials, forming an ornamental frame around the central device. |
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| Reverse description | A crowned king depicted enthroned in full frontal view, holding an imperial orb in one hand and a lily-headed scepter in the other, emblematic of sovereign authority. A star appears in the field to one side of the enthroned figure. The composition follows the formal, hieratic conventions of Hohenstaufen-era imperial portraiture, typical of Nuremberg mint issues of the late 12th to early 13th century. |
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Nuremberg's mint operated under a tangled overlapping authority during this period — Henry VI's death in 1197 triggered a succession crisis that set Philip of Swabia and Otto of Brunswick against each other in a civil war lasting until Philip's murder in 1208. Coins attributable to all three rulers were struck at Nuremberg across these two decades, and the boundaries between their issues remain contested among specialists.
The Slg. Erlanger reference places this piece within a carefully argued sequence, but die linkages between the rival claimants' Nuremberg output are still not fully resolved.