Obv. faintly visible bust of the abbot raising a lily in the right hand to the left; strong traces of coin planchet preparation (vierschlag).
Rev. a bust of the king in a cloak facing, with a long lily sceptre in his right hand, a star on the right.
Silver, 0.89 g, 21.0 mm. Slg Gaettens 1300. Rare, see Künker eLive 76: 7232.
The Imperial
Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and Paul in Seltz (Selz) founded c.991,
by St. Adelaide of Burgundy (the one from the Otto-Adelaide pfennigs) who
died here in 999. That is why Seltz remains the centre of her cult to this day.
