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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Weingarten, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1240 |
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| Weight | 0.49 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing half-length figure in high relief, depicted in frontal ecclesiastical robes with a beaded neckline, holding in the left hand a globus cruciger surmounted by a cross and in the right hand a lily scepter. The figure is rendered in the Romanesque style typical of mid-13th century south German bracteates. The outer border is decorated with alternating crosses and small squares forming a continuous decorative ring around the central effigy. |
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| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage struck from a single die on a thin flan. The reverse shows no intentional design or inscription. |
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Weingarten Abbey's minting rights derived from imperial grants, and by the mid-thirteenth century the house was producing these thin, single-sided bracteates as the dominant small change of the upper Swabian region. The type coincides with a period of intense rivalry between Guelph-aligned ecclesiastical mints and Hohenstaufen imperial interests — Weingarten, with its deep Guelph associations and its relic of the Holy Blood, occupied an unusually politicized position for a monastic issuer.
At 0.49g spread across 29mm, the fabric is exceptionally fragile, and undamaged examples are genuinely difficult to source.