Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Denier - Theoderich
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
|---|---|
| Year | 1041-1055 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Pfennig (999-1122) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The field bears the place-name inscription BASILEA arranged in multiple lines across the flan, referencing the mint city of Basel. The letters are large and bold in the romanesque style, occupying the entire field without a surrounding legend. A faint linear border frames the irregular flan, consistent with hammered denier coinage of the mid-eleventh century. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Basel |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Theoderich of Rot served as Bishop of Basel under Henry III, a period during which the emperor aggressively reasserted royal control over episcopal appointments across the Reich. The right to strike coin at Basel had been granted to the bishopric in the tenth century, and these deniers represent the diocese exercising that franchise during one of the more politically turbulent stretches of Salian consolidation. Kluge's attribution places this issue within the broader Karolingian-tradition denier coinage of the Upper Rhine — a regional type that persisted well after Carolingian political structures had dissolved entirely.