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Light Denier - Hartwig I of Lierheim
| Issuer | Bishopric of Augsburg |
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| Year | 1167-1184 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1167-1184) |
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Hartwig I served as Bishop of Augsburg during a period of intense friction between the imperial church and the papacy, and his episcopate coincided almost exactly with the long tail of the Investiture Controversy's practical consequences — Frederick Barbarossa was still actively manipulating episcopal appointments across the Reich throughout this period. Augsburg's mint rights, exercised here, were among the older episcopal minting privileges in Swabia, though the output was never prolific. The denier form itself was already thinning and broadening by this decade, a pan-regional trend visible across the Rhine and Danube ecclesiastical mints simultaneously.