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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roerbakmix, post: 3798507, member: 100731&quot;][USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER] and [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER] thanks both for the compliments. I did not know about the raised edge on the Saxon pennies, and come to think of it: my only Saxon penny shows the same (mainly bought because of the Picasso-esque portrait style):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014590[/ATTACH] </p><p>Bernhard I (973-1011)</p><p>Denomination: AR Penny, minted: Jever or Luneburg (Germany); 973-1011</p><p>Obv: (B)ERNHARDVS DVX, head of Bernard I</p><p>Rev: Partly illegible, should be IN NOMINE DEI AMEN</p><p>Catalogue: Dannenberg 585, Jesse 11</p><p>Provenance: Ex private collection ; acq.: 09-2019</p><p><br /></p><p>Portrait and coin type is imitated from Otto-Adelheid coins. Bernard I (c. 950 – 9 February 1011) was the Duke of Saxony between 973 and 1011, the second of the Billung dynasty, a son of Duke Herman and Oda. He extended his father&#039;s power considerably.</p><p><br /></p><p>He fought the Danes in 974, 983, and 994 during their invasions. He supported the succession of Otto III over Henry the Wrangler. In 986, he was made marshal and in 991 and 995 he joined the young Otto on campaign against the Slavs. He increased his power vis-à-vis the crown, where his father had been the representative of the king to the tribe, Bernard was the representative of the tribe to the king. Bernard died in 1011 and was buried in the Church of Saint Michael in Lüneburg.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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