Denier moneyer Otger

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.