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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Markdorf, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1250-1270 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin is uniface; the reverse presents a concave, mirrored impression of the obverse design — a six-petalled rosette within a beaded border — transferred through the thin silver flan during striking. The reverse surface is entirely plain and bears no independent design, inscription, or legend, consistent with standard bracteate production technique of the Upper Swabian region in the thirteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Markdorf was a small lordship on the northern shore of Lake Constance, and its coinage rights derived from the Bishop of Constance rather than any imperial grant. These thin, single-sided bracteates were the dominant small-change format across the Upper Rhine and Lake Constance region through the mid-thirteenth century — struck by hammering a single die into a flan so thin the image transferred to both faces in reverse relief.
Cahn's corpus remains the essential reference for Bodensee bracteates, and Ko#146 is among the more localized attributions in that sequence.