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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Pegau, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1100-1140 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pegau Abbey was founded in 1096 by Wiprecht von Groitzsch, and its early coinage rights were granted as part of the broader Salian-era policy of extending minting privileges to ecclesiastical foundations along the Saxon frontier. These thin bracteates, struck on a single die with the design showing through in reverse on the back, represent one of the earliest phases of bracteate production in the region — a technique that would come to dominate German ecclesiastical coinage through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Löbbecke reference alone places this piece within one of the most rigorously documented bracteate collections ever assembled.