Denier Bracteate

The Bishopric of Schwerin was carved out of the Diocese of Oldenburg in 1062 and spent much of the 13th century entangled in territorial disputes with the neighboring counts of Schwerin — the secular lords who shared the city's name but not its ecclesiastical allegiances. Bracteates of this region and period are structurally fragile; struck from a single die onto a thin silver blank with no reverse support, they survive intact at a rate that makes even circulated examples genuinely scarce.