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Denier - Adalbero II
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 999-1025 |
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| Reference(s) | HMZ 1#186H |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A small square, oriented with its sides parallel to the coin's edge, occupies the central field, with a pellet placed at each of its four corners. A single pellet appears within the square's interior, and the whole central device is enclosed within a pearled circle. A fragmentary Latin legend, referencing the mint city of Basel, runs in the outer field. |
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Adalbero II held the see of Basel from 999 until his death in 1025, a period when the Ottonian emperors routinely granted minting rights to loyal ecclesiastical princes as a means of binding the church hierarchy to imperial authority. His mint at Basel operated under precisely this arrangement, a privilege confirmed under Otto III.
HMZ 1#186H is among the more precisely attributed types in this bishop's coinage, though the series as a whole presents significant challenges — episcopal deniers of this region and period share obverse and reverse conventions so closely that die attribution often hinges on a single letter variant.