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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7440971, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER], for starting this up again, and sorry about your present circumstances.&nbsp; It&#039;s like, been there, done that, got the jersey and the limited-edition coffee cup.&nbsp; To mix cliche, my two cents, for what they&#039;re worth.</p><p>This is a new one, a denar of Heinrich II (German king /emperor 1002-1024) of Deventer, in Frisia.&nbsp; (Yes, it&#039;s not here yet, and I&#039;m using the dealer&#039;s pics.&nbsp; Better than I could do, anyway.) [ATTACH=full]1291027[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1291028[/ATTACH]</p><p>...Dannenberg 563.&nbsp; What follows includes the best rendering of the legends I&#039;ve seen online.</p><p>Obv.&nbsp; King&#039;s hand, in a beaded sleeve.&nbsp; In field (right to left: RE / X.</p><p>HEINRIC [...] IMP [....].</p><p>Rev. [ostensibly; seeing it in hand will help:] DAVANTRIA.</p><p>Compare this to the Second Hand Type pennies of AEthelred II, c. 985-991.&nbsp; --Not Mine!!!&nbsp; This is from a Kunker auction of 2008, accessed via ACsearch.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1291041[/ATTACH]</p><p>Several things are cool about this.&nbsp; The convergence of a royal German imitation of AEthelred II (evoking 11th-c. Scandinavian imitations of the Long Cross type), from Frisia (vaguely corresponding to the Netherlands), with Scandinavian &#039;peck marks,&#039; eloquently confirms the commercial relations between the later Vikings and the German polity.&nbsp; This in turn evokes a milieu in which the latter were taking Danegeld on one side of the channel, and using it, by more consistently peaceful means, on the other.</p><p>Another cool thing is the way in which AEthelred&#039;s prototype, with the Hand of God descending from clouds, and the Alpha and Omega in the fields, is replaced by the royal, sleeved hand, with &#039;REX&#039; in the fields.&nbsp; This strikes me as almost ironic, since the earlier Salian kings and emperors, prominently including Heinrich II, were conspicuous patrons of the clerical authorities.&nbsp; (Somebody here posted a thread on this a few years ago, which persistently resists finding.&nbsp; --If you&#039;re out there, a link would be cordially welcome!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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