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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4647401, member: 96898&quot;]Oh no, you have opened Pandora&#039;s box, [USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] ! I had promised myself to never again show these on CoinTalk out of serious fear to discourage young and aspiring medieval collectors for forever, but you got me once you mentioned Conrad II...</p><p><br /></p><p>Things only get worse if you go east from Speyer. Here is my small collection of Ottonian and early Salian &quot;Saxon Pennies.&quot; Virtually all surviving examples suffer from seriously bad workmanship. Though they are not pretty, these coins are historically important, since the Harz silver they were struck from fueled both the re-monetization of the European economy and the establishment of long distance trade between the Holy Roman Empire and its Eastern and Northern neighbors:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1148085[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Otto III with Adelheid of Burgundy as regent (or immobilized under their successors), Holy Roman Empire, &quot;Otto-Adelheid-Penny,&quot; 983/991– ca. 1050, probably Goslar mint. Obv: [+D]&#039;I GR&#039;A + R[EX], cross with OD[D]O in quadrangles. Rev: [A]TEAH[LHT]; &quot;wooden church,&quot; pellet to right. 19mm, 1.39g. Hatz IV 5/6.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1148082[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Magdeburg, Imperial mint, &quot;Saxon penny,&quot; probably issued under Otto III (r. 983–1002 AD) and Archbishop Giselher (984–1004 AD). Obv: ...I M I... (corrupted MAGADEBURG); &quot;wooden church&quot; with four pellets inside; three pellets to l. and r. Rev: ...EI°III... (corrupted IN NOMINE DNI AMEN), cross pattée. 16mm, 1.27g. Ref: Dannenberg 1330; Mehl 30; Kilger Mg HP 1; Slg Hauswaldt 14.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1148079[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">&quot;Saxon penny&quot;, anonymous regional issue, under Conrad II, ca. 1025–1030 AD, struck in the region around Meißen. Obv: legend of wedges and retrograde [C]-V-X-R (CRVX–type), cross trefly. Rev: legend of wedges and H-[E?]-V-R (VERH–type), cross of wedges. 16mm, 1.10g. Ref: Type Mol A 2; Dannenberg 1335a–c.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1148080[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">&quot;Saxon penny&quot;, anonymous regional issue, under the early Salian emperors (Conrad II – Henry IV), ca. 1025–1060 AD, struck in the Saale region close to Naumburg. Obv: legend of wedges and retrograde [R?]- X-I-V (CRVX–type), cross with pellets and ringlets in quadrants. Rev: legend of wedges and C-V-X-[R?] (CRVX–type), cross of wedges. 16mm, 1.17g. Ref: Type Sal D 2:1; Dannenberg 1337.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1148081[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">&quot;Saxon penny&quot;, anonymous regional issue, under the early Salian emperors (Conrad II – Henry IV), ca. 1025–1060 AD, struck in the Saale region close to Naumburg. Obv: legend of wedges, strokes and X-P, cross with pellets and crescents in quadrants. Rev: legend of wedges and C-V-X-[?] (CRVX–type), cross of wedges. 16mm, 1.08g. Ref: Type Sal D 2:1: Dannenberg 1337 var (obv. legend). Many pecks.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">The most interesting design feature on these is the raised edge, presumably hammered up to prove the quality of the silver – strongly debased alloys would have been too brittle for this:</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]1148084[/ATTACH] </font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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