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Denier - Immobilization in the name of Otto I
| Issuer | Lower Lotharingia, Duchy of |
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| Year | 962-1000 |
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| Weight | 1.3 g |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered silver flan bearing a cross pattée at center, the arms of which divide the field into four quarters each containing a pellet or globule in relief, characteristic of the Ottonian denier tradition. The overall design is highly schematic and artistically abbreviated, consistent with the immobilized coinage of the Lower Lotharingian mints. The irregular flan exhibits the typical uneven surfaces of hand-struck medieval deniers. The circumferential legend, partially legible, surrounds the central cross motif. The style reflects the degraded die-cutting common to late tenth-century imitative issues struck in the name of Emperor Otto I. |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Liège |
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