Catalog
Denier - Richewin et roi Henri I
| Issuer | Bishopric of Strasbourg |
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| Year | 919-933 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | The city name ARGENTINACIVITAS (Strasbourg) inscribed in two horizontal lines across the field, flanked on the left by a retrograde R and on the right by a retrograde S. The lettering is rendered in the angular, primitive style characteristic of early medieval Carolingian-Ottonian coinage. The inscription is divided by a horizontal line separating the two text registers. The overall design is stark and non-figurative, reflecting the episcopal monetary tradition of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Richewin served as Bishop of Strasbourg from 913 and struck coinage in joint authority with the Carolingian king — an arrangement that reflects the fragmented political reality of the post-Carolingian West Frankish and East Frankish kingdoms in the early tenth century. The association with Henri I (Henry the Fowler, king of East Francia 919–936) dates the episcopal coinage firmly within the Saxon dynasty's consolidation of royal authority over the former Carolingian territories east of the Rhine.
The Kluge Kar#476 reference places this piece within the Carolingian denier tradition that Strasbourg's mint maintained well into the Ottonian period.