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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5998159, member: 110504&quot;]Got this over the last couple of days.</p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/93EAAOSwKoFgCc~K/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zcEAAOSwGmlgCc~P/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Heinrich III as &#039;King of the Romans&#039; (crowned heir of the German empire), 1028-1039.&nbsp; Denar of Duisburg.</p><p>Obv.&nbsp; Heinrich facing, [holding] sceptre to the left.&nbsp; (...It&#039;s 11th-century European!&nbsp; Suspend your disbelief!)</p><p>+HEINRICVS REX</p><p>Rev.&nbsp; Long voided cross, emulating pennies of AEthelred II.&nbsp; DV [/] IS [/] BV [/] RG</p><p>(Dannenberg 316.)</p><p>I like how, this late, there are still all these peck marks, evoking lively trade with Scandinavians.&nbsp; --At least culturally, if not (even) ethnically so.&nbsp; With particular reference to the southeastern Baltic coast, which had something to do with this example&#039;s immediate provenance.&nbsp; The convergence of that with the reverse design powerfully evokes the ongoing cultural legacy of the Viking Age as far into the 11th century as this.</p><p>Duisburg never achieved the patronage of, or association with, Heinrich III that you could associate with Speyer or Goslar.&nbsp; ...But, hey.</p><p>One picture of Heinrich, already as Emperor (c. 1039 -1056).&nbsp; From a manuscript contemporaneous to the latter phase.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Heinrich_III..jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And&nbsp; here&#039;s his funly neo-Carolingian monogram.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Heinrich_III_Monogram.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Which in turn evokes the one of Herbert I, count of Maine c. 1015 -1035, on his deniers (immobilized into the 11th century).&nbsp; (&#039;ERBERTVS&#039;)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244223[/ATTACH]</p><p>(From a relatively early&nbsp; example of the immobilization, c. mid -late 11th century.&nbsp; ...An apparently unpublished variant, incorporating an initial &quot;H,&quot; but otherwise the best one I have for the monogram.)</p><p>Post anything 11th c. CE, or later medieval German, or (...maybe even more fun) both.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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