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Sterling - Henry IV of Oldenburg-Wildeshausen
| Issuer | Lordship of Vlotho |
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| Year | 1248-1271 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bearded bust of Henry IV rendered in a schematic Romanesque style, the hair depicted as curling locks framing the face. A five-petaled flower ornament is prominently placed on the forehead. The circumferential Latin legend reads *HENRICVS REX, separated from the central effigy by an inner beaded circle. The die-work is characteristic of mid-thirteenth-century German hammered sterlings. |
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| Obverse lettering | *HENRICVS REX |
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Henry IV ruled a minor Westphalian lordship caught between the competing ambitions of the Archbishop of Cologne and the Bishop of Minden throughout the mid-thirteenth century. That his court produced sterlings at all reflects the coin's remarkable penetration into North German commercial networks during this period — a type originating in England that had, by the 1240s, become the preferred trade denomination across much of the Low Countries and adjacent German territories.
Stange 15 and Kalvelagen/Schrock 12 represent a genuinely scarce attribution within an already thinly documented lordship.