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Denier - Otto III
| Issuer | Lower Bavaria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1290-1312 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A double pointed arch portal is depicted, with a central tower crowned by battlements rising between the two arches. Within the left portal, a bishop's head is shown facing front, wearing a mitre; within the right portal, a ducal head faces front wearing a flat cap. The architectural composition is rendered in the simplified, linear style typical of Bavarian hammered bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage of the late 13th to early 14th century. |
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Otto III ruled Lower Bavaria during a period of repeated dynastic partition — the Wittelsbach holdings were divided and reunited multiple times across the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, making precise attribution of undated bracteate-era deniers genuinely difficult. The Em Reg#246 reference places this squarely within the regional coinage reorganized after the 1294 division that separated Lower Bavaria from the Palatinate line. These small silver pieces circulated alongside heavier Bavarian pfennigs in a monetary environment where local ecclesiastical and secular lords each struck competing issues.