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Bracteate Pfennig - Berthold von Leiningen Griffen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg (German States) |
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| Year | 1258-1285 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a bishop depicted in high relief against a plain field, rendered in the characteristic thin-flan bracteate style. The bishop holds a crozier in his right hand and a book in his left hand, the pastoral staff rising prominently beside the head. The effigy is enclosed within a narrow inner raised border and a broader outer raised rim, both following the irregular contour of the flan. The design is executed in a simple, archaic Romanesque manner typical of 13th-century Franconian ecclesiastical bracteates. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface bracteate; the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, as is characteristic of the bracteate coinage technique, with no additional design elements, legends, or ornamentation. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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