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Denier - Hermann II with emperor Conrad II
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Cologne |
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| Year | 1036-1039 |
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| Currency | Denier (1000-1350) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Schematic architectural motif depicting a cathedral or church facade with a triangular gabled roof and flanking towers or columns, with pellets adorning the sides. Abbreviated lettering identifying the issuing archbishop and the mint city of Cologne is distributed around and within the architectural device. The design reflects the Ottonian-Salian ecclesiastical minting tradition, with bold but simplified architectural rendering typical of Cologne deniers of this period. |
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Hermann II held the archbishopric of Cologne from 1036 until his death in 1056, but this denier belongs specifically to the brief overlap with Conrad II's reign, which ended at the emperor's death in June 1039. Cologne's mint had the right to strike in the emperor's name under the terms of its imperial privileges, making the pairing of episcopal and imperial authority on a single coin a legal formality rather than a political statement — though one that required active imperial endorsement to exercise.
Conrad II's final years were consumed by campaigns in Burgundy and conflicts with the Polish duke Mieszko II. Cologne sat at the commercial heart of the Rhineland, and deniers from this mint circulated heavily along the Rhine trade routes.