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Light Denier - Gerburg of Kappenberg
| Issuer | Abbey of Quedlinburg |
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| Year | 1126-1137 |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of the abbess in high relief, depicted in ecclesiastical vestments and holding a processional cross resting on her shoulder alongside a book (Bible). A star appears to the left of the figure in the field. The effigy is rendered in the Romanesque style characteristic of early 12th-century German ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gerburg of Kappenberg served as abbess of Quedlinburg from 1126 to 1137, presiding over one of the most politically significant imperial abbeys in the Holy Roman Empire — a house founded by Otto I's mother Mathilde in the tenth century and long holding the status of an imperial free abbey answerable directly to the emperor. The right to strike coin was among Quedlinburg's oldest privileges, exercised nearly continuously from the Ottonian period forward.
Gerburg's tenure coincided with the turbulent aftermath of the Investiture Controversy, when abbatial minting rights across Saxony were under periodic challenge from local secular lords.