Otto Adelheid Pfennig

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The Otto-Adelheid-Pfennig (OAP) was a German type of coin with the name of King Otto III. and his grandmother Adelheid von Burgund (Athalhet), who was minted as a regional penny of the Harz region soon after 983 . The mint took place in more than one mint in the area between Hildesheim and Quedlinburg and lasted immobilized until the middle of the 11th century.

description

A cross is embossed on one side, in the corners of which are the letters of the name Otto in the form ODDO, which is framed by the inscription DI GRA REX (for " Dei Gratia Rex ") ("By God's grace, King"). The other side shows a stylized wooden church with the inscription: ATEAHLHT or ATHALHET. The minted silver coins weighed around 1.25 g and were around 17-19 mm in diameter.

See also

literature

  • Vera Hatz : On the question of Otto Adelheid pfennigs. Attempt to systematize based on the Swedish found material. In: Commentationes de nummis saeculorum IX-XI in Suecia repertis. Vol. 1. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1961, OCLC 174913020 , pp. 105-144.
  • Gert Hatz , Vera Hatz, Ulrich Zwicker, Noe and Zofia Gale: Otto-Adelheid-Pfennige. Investigations on coins from the 10th / 11th centuries Century. (= Commentationes de nummis saeculorum IX-XI in Suecia repertis. Nova Series 7). Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm 1991, ISBN 9-171-92827-8 .
  • Bernd Kluge : Considerations on the Otto Adelheid Pfennigs. Stamp-critical investigations of the types Hatz II (Dbg. 1166, 1170) and AMEN (Dbg. 1171). In: Commentationes de nummis saeculorum IX-XI in Suecia repertis. Nova Series 6: Sigtuna Papers, Proceedings of the Sigtuna Symposium in viking-age coinage 1-4 June 1989. Lund /. London 1990, pp. 167-181.
  • Peter Ilisch : Considerations on the dating of the Otto Adelheid Pfennigs of the levels Hatz II, III and IV. Wiadomości Numizmatyczne 49, 2005, pp. 39–62.
  • Klaus Giesen : The halves of the Otto-Adelheid-Pfennige, analysis of finds and comparison of stamps in: NUMMI DOCENT - Festschrift for Peter Ilisch on his 65th birthday on April 28, 2012, (Ed.) Gerd Dethlefs, Arent Pol, Stefan Wittenbrink, Osnabrück 2012, Page 98–110

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto-Adelheid-Pfennig on museum-digital.de
  2. ↑ Johannes Hoops: Reallexikon der Germanic antiquity. 26th volume. Hall donation. De Gruyter , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-110-17734-X , p. 395.