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Denier moneyer Otger
| Issuer | County of Leuven (Brussels) |
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| Year | 1040-1054 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Hammered reverse displaying a plain cross extending to the inner border, dividing the field into four quadrants each containing a triskelion or spiral ornament, with a small crescent or pellet also visible in the field. A beaded or rope-pattern inner circle encloses the cross design. The outer legend, introduced by a cross pattée, reads IOTGERVS MPT, identifying the moneyer Otger responsible for this issue. The rendering of the cross and its associated ornamental fillers is consistent with Low Countries coinage practice of the mid-eleventh century, reflecting both Carolingian and Ottonian die-cutting traditions. |
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| Mintage | ND (1040-1054) |
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Otger was one of several moneyers operating under Count Lambert II of Leuven during the mid-eleventh century, a period when the county was consolidating control over the Brussels mint as part of broader efforts to assert fiscal independence from imperial and episcopal oversight. The moneyer-named denier — a Carolingian monetary form still dominant in the Low Countries at this date — places Otger within a tradition where individual moneyers bore personal accountability for alloy quality, a practice increasingly displaced by centralized comital control across the following century.