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Denier - Hermann
| Issuer | Bishopric of Metz |
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| Year | 1073-1090 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse lettering | +HERIMANN` EP^S |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hermann of Thuringia served as Bishop of Metz from 1073 to 1090, a tenure that coincided with the worst years of the Investiture Controversy — the rupture between Gregory VII and Henry IV that fractured ecclesiastical authority across the empire. Metz, as an imperial bishopric on the western frontier, was drawn into that conflict directly; its bishops held comital authority over the city and owed fealty to the crown at precisely the moment such fealty became politically untenable.
Episcopal deniers of this period from Metz are documented in Kluge's corpus of Carolingian and Ottonian-era coinages, though attribution between closely adjacent bishops can depend on subtle die distinctions rather than inscriptional certainty.