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Denier - Ordulf Jever
| Issuer | Saxony, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1035-1040 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A plain cross divides the reverse field into four quadrants, with the legend +NADVVIS distributed around the perimeter. In three of the four angles formed by the cross arms are pellets or small balls, while the fourth angle contains the letter V, consistent with the described arrangement of V, three balls, V, C in the quadrants. The lettering is executed in a rustic early medieval Latin hand, and the overall design follows the standard Saxon denier type associated with the mint of Jever under Count Ordulf. |
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Ordulf, Count of Jever, issued this denier during the turbulent years following Conrad II's death in 1039, when shifting comital loyalties across Saxony created brief windows for local minting authority. The Jever mint is among the lesser-documented North Sea coastal operations of the period, and surviving examples are thin on the ground — the Jesse and Dannenberg references account for only a handful of confirmed specimens between them.