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Denier - Marquisat of Antwerp
| Issuer | Margraviate of Antwerp |
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| Year | 1080-1100 |
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| Weight | 1.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold equal-armed cross occupying the central field, dividing the die into four quarters, each containing a letter or pellet device consistent with 11th-century Lotharingian denier types. The cross arms are plain and relatively thick, set within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend, partially legible on this irregular flan, reads I DOMINI NOST=RI in rough Latin capitals, referencing the cross of Our Lord. The overall execution is characteristic of hammered provincial coinage of the late Salian period. |
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The Margraviate of Antwerp occupied a peculiar political position in the late 11th century — technically a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, administered by a succession of margrave families whose control over coinage rights was contested rather than settled. Issues from this brief window align with the tenure of Godfrey of Bouillon's family connections to the region, though attribution of specific dies to individual rulers within this span remains unresolved in the literature. Ilisch's corpus remains the authoritative work precisely because the documentary record is so thin.