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Germany Gittelde, Hartwig of Sponheim (1079-1102), AR Denar - Rare XF/XF
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Germany, Archbishopric of Magdeburg, Gittelde mint. Silver denar of Archbishop Hartwig of Sponheim (1079-1102). 1.04 g. XF/XF. Dannenberg 689, Mehl 942. Rare!
The coin: The obverse shows a facing half-length figure within a beaded circle, with a long upright staff to the left and the right hand raised before the breast; the robe falls in fine, clearly rendered folds. The reverse shows a fortified building: a tall central tower with a pellet in an annulet on its wall, flanked by two side wings each crowned by a small tower, above an enclosing wall decorated with annulets and pellets, all within a beaded circle. The surrounding legend is partly legible. On this type the obverse is interpreted in the literature as the Vogt (advocate) of Gittelde, a count of Katlenburg, while the reverse names Archbishop Hartwig – a joint coinage of the archbishop and his advocate.
History: Hartwig, a son of Count Siegfried I of the Spanheim (Sponheim) family, was a canon at Mainz and provost at Erfurt before he was raised to the see of Magdeburg in 1079 by the anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden. During the Investiture Controversy he was, with Bishop Burchard of Halberstadt, one of the leading Saxon supporters of Pope Gregory VII against Emperor Henry IV; he was driven into exile in 1085 but returned soon after, and in 1088 he made his peace with the emperor. He died in 1102 and was buried in Magdeburg Cathedral. Under Hartwig the first coins of the archbishopric naming the archbishop himself were struck.
Gittelde, on the western edge of the Harz mountains, was granted by Otto I to the Monastery of St Maurice in Magdeburg; in 965 the place received mint and toll rights. The archbishops entrusted their estate there to the counts of Katlenburg as advocates, which explains the joint coinage. Lying close to the rich Harz silver deposits, Gittelde was one of the important mints of the Saxon denar coinage of the Ottonian and Salian period, when thin silver pennies of Saxon mints circulated widely in trade across northern Europe and the Baltic.
Condition: A handsome, well-struck example on a broad flan with sharp, well-preserved details of the figure and the architecture and attractive old toning. Extremely fine on both sides.
Rarity: Denars of Hartwig from the Gittelde mint are rare and seldom offered on the market – a fine opportunity for collectors of medieval Saxon and Salian-era coinage.
The coin: The obverse shows a facing half-length figure within a beaded circle, with a long upright staff to the left and the right hand raised before the breast; the robe falls in fine, clearly rendered folds. The reverse shows a fortified building: a tall central tower with a pellet in an annulet on its wall, flanked by two side wings each crowned by a small tower, above an enclosing wall decorated with annulets and pellets, all within a beaded circle. The surrounding legend is partly legible. On this type the obverse is interpreted in the literature as the Vogt (advocate) of Gittelde, a count of Katlenburg, while the reverse names Archbishop Hartwig – a joint coinage of the archbishop and his advocate.
History: Hartwig, a son of Count Siegfried I of the Spanheim (Sponheim) family, was a canon at Mainz and provost at Erfurt before he was raised to the see of Magdeburg in 1079 by the anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden. During the Investiture Controversy he was, with Bishop Burchard of Halberstadt, one of the leading Saxon supporters of Pope Gregory VII against Emperor Henry IV; he was driven into exile in 1085 but returned soon after, and in 1088 he made his peace with the emperor. He died in 1102 and was buried in Magdeburg Cathedral. Under Hartwig the first coins of the archbishopric naming the archbishop himself were struck.
Gittelde, on the western edge of the Harz mountains, was granted by Otto I to the Monastery of St Maurice in Magdeburg; in 965 the place received mint and toll rights. The archbishops entrusted their estate there to the counts of Katlenburg as advocates, which explains the joint coinage. Lying close to the rich Harz silver deposits, Gittelde was one of the important mints of the Saxon denar coinage of the Ottonian and Salian period, when thin silver pennies of Saxon mints circulated widely in trade across northern Europe and the Baltic.
Condition: A handsome, well-struck example on a broad flan with sharp, well-preserved details of the figure and the architecture and attractive old toning. Extremely fine on both sides.
Rarity: Denars of Hartwig from the Gittelde mint are rare and seldom offered on the market – a fine opportunity for collectors of medieval Saxon and Salian-era coinage.
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