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1/2 Brakteat - Harald 'Bluetooth'

Issuer Denmark
Year 958-985
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Reference(s) Hauberg#1
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Harald Blåtand unified Denmark and, according to the Jelling stones, "made the Danes Christian" — a political act as much as a religious one. These bracteates, struck from a single die on wafer-thin flans, represent Denmark's earliest indigenous coinage, issued when Scandinavian rulers were only beginning to adopt minting as an instrument of authority rather than relying on hack-silver by weight.

Hauberg 1 is the foundational reference for Danish bracteate coinage. At 0.25g, the half-bracteate format pushed the limits of what silver could carry before becoming structurally unusable.