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Denier - Otto I Huy mint

Issuer East Francia, Kingdom of
Year 936-962
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Value 1 Denier (1⁄240)
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Obverse script Latin
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Otto I struck these deniers at Huy — a mint on the Meuse in what is now Belgium — during the period between his accession and his imperial coronation in Rome. Huy sat within his territorial holdings through ecclesiastical grants, and coinage there reflects his consolidation of Ottonian authority over the middle Rhineland and Meuse valley before the imperial title changed the political calculus entirely. The Dengis Liege reference places this squarely within the pre-imperial series, distinct from later issues struck under the same name but different authority.

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