Denier - Reinhard de Blankenburg

Reinhard de Blankenburg served as Bishop of Halberstadt from 1106 until his death in 1123, a period marked by the later stages of the Investiture Controversy between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire. Halberstadt sat squarely in contested territory during this conflict, and episcopal minting rights were both a political assertion and a practical necessity for a diocese managing significant landed wealth in Saxony.

The Kluge Kar#426 reference places this piece within a well-documented sequence of Ottonian and Salian-era episcopal deniers from the region, though individual die pairings remain difficult to attribute with precision across the type.