Denier - Uto III and king Otto I

Uto III served as Bishop of Strasbourg from 950 to 965, and this denier falls within the years when Ottonian imperial authority was being aggressively consolidated across the German ecclesiastical territories. Otto I's decision to grant coinage rights to loyal bishops was a deliberate political instrument — binding the Church hierarchy to the crown through the profitable privilege of the mint, a policy that would define the Reichskirchensystem for generations. Strasbourg's position on the Rhine made its mint commercially significant, not merely symbolic.

The narrow date window here — closing at 962 with Otto's imperial coronation in Rome — is the anchor for attribution.