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Denier - Wickman III
| Issuer | Frisia |
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| Year | 994-1016 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central short cross with a pellet in each of the four angles, all enclosed within a beaded or plain inner circle. The design is executed in the characteristic bold relief of late Ottonian hammered coinage, with the cross arms extending to the inner circle. The circumscribed Latin legend WICMAN COM, identifying the issuing count, runs around the periphery of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | WICMAN COM |
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Frisia in the late tenth century was not a unified political entity but a loose collection of coastal territories where comital and episcopal authority overlapped messily. This denier is associated with Wickman III, a figure whose precise role in Frisian monetary administration remains debated — the attribution rests primarily on die analysis and hoard distribution rather than documentary record.
The Ilisch NL1#20.2 reference places this type within the North Sea trading network, where Frisian deniers circulated alongside Ottonian and Anglo-Saxon issues in the Baltic commerce of the period.