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Denier - Hildolf Wessem
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Cologne |
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| Year | 1076-1079 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Two confronted busts facing one another with a sword depicted vertically between them in the field; above this group, a schematic representation of a building or church facade with three pointed gabled roofs, alluding to the city of Cologne. The peripheral legend reads ✠ COL IS, referencing the mint city of Cologne. The design is executed in the simplified, angular Ottonian-Salian hammered tradition typical of Rhenish ecclesiastical coinage of the late eleventh century. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hildolf served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1076 to 1078, appointed during one of the most fractious periods of the Investiture Controversy — the same years in which Henry IV was excommunicated at Canossa. Cologne's mint rights gave the archbishopric direct economic leverage in a political environment where ecclesiastical and imperial authority were openly at war.
The Kluge Kar#377 attribution places this squarely within the Carolingian-derived denier tradition maintained at Cologne through the 11th century.