1046-1056 AD., German States, Goslar in Saxony, Heinrich III, Pfennig.
Heinrich III., as German Emperor, 1046-1056 AD., royal Goslar mint in Saxony,
AR Pfennig (17 mm / 1,16 g),
Obv.: HE[INRICVS IMP] , crowned bust of Heinrich facing.
Rev.: [S-S SIMON S-S IVDAS] , busts of the two saints Simon and Judas facing.
Dannenberg 668 ; Slg. Bonhoff 299 ; Cappe Tf. 1/1 ; Kluge, Salier 121/123 .
cf. http://www.khm.uio.no/prosjekter/avaldsnes/Avaldsnes28062011.html
Heinrich III. (* 28. Oktober 1017; †5. Oktober 1056 in Bodfeld, Harz) aus der Familie der Salier war von 1039 bis zu seinem Tod 1056 römisch-deutscher König und seit 1046 Kaiser des Heiligen Römischen Reiches. Die Münze stammt aus Sachsen nach der Reform von 1046/47.
Henry III. (29 October 1017 – 5 October 1056), called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. He was the eldest son of Conrad II of Germany and Gisela of Swabia and his father made him duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI) in 1026, after the death of Duke Henry V. Then, on Easter Day 1028, his father having been crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Henry was elected and crowned King of Germany in the cathedral of Aachen by Pilgrim, Archbishop of Cologne. After the death of Herman IV, Duke of Swabia in 1038, his father gave him that duchy (as Henry I) as well as the kingdom of Burgundy, which Conrad had inherited in 1033. Upon the death of his father on June 4, 1039, he became sole ruler of the kingdom and was crowned emperor by Pope Clement II in Rome (1046).