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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8234657, member: 110504&quot;]<b>Very</b> cool, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER].&nbsp; From here, this is sit-up-in-your-chair late, even for someone like me, who likes to hang out in the earlier 13th century for this stuff.&nbsp; The denomination and motifs, harkening back to the early 12th century, strike me as bordering on anachronism.&nbsp; --In a Very, Very cool way!</p><p>More from [USER=87179]@Chris B[/USER]&#039;s neck of the woods, there&#039;s this.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448393[/ATTACH]</p><p>Adalbert, Archbishop of Hamburg 1043-1066. Denar of Bremen.</p><p>Obv: Profile left, with cruciform sceptre.</p><p>Rev: Two keys; pellets in field.&nbsp; Dannenberg 1777.</p><p>Adalbert was the patron of the chronicler Adam of Bremen, who&#039;s a key source for the late phases of the Viking Age, especially in the western Baltic.&nbsp; ...His selective reliability notwithstanding.&nbsp; Adam devotes considerable attention to the longrunning feud between the Billung dukes of Saxony and the bishopric of Bremen.&nbsp; During the ducal reign of Bernhardt II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448402[/ATTACH]</p><p>(note the gonfannon on the reverse, upside down in the dealer&#039;s pic), his son and eventual heir, Ordulf (/Otto; here &#039;ODDO,&#039; retrograde on both sides)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448403[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448404[/ATTACH]</p><p>sacked Bremen.</p><p>Ordulf went on to ally with his brother-in-law, Magnus &#039;the Good&#039; of Norway and sometimes Denmark, in campaigns against the Slavic Wends on the southern Baltic coast.&nbsp; (One of Magnus, probably from Denmark; note the triquetra on the reverse, a common late Viking motif: )</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448411[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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