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Denier - Otto III as emperor, Milan mint
| Issuer | Italy, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 996-1002 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | AVG +MED IOLA NIV (Translation: ... august. Milan.) |
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Otto III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome in 996 at around sixteen years old, the youngest emperor to hold that title. His Italian policy was genuinely unusual — he relocated his court to Rome and attempted to revive a Roman imperial ideal he called the *Renovatio Imperii Romanorum*, rejecting the Ottonian administrative model his predecessors had built north of the Alps. Milan's mint operated under imperial authority during this period, and the denier coinage it produced reflects that brief experiment in direct Italian governance before Otto's death in 1002 at twenty-one ended the project entirely.