Brandenburg's bracteate deniers of the second half of the thirteenth century were struck under the Ascanians during a period when the margraviate was actively expanding eastward into Slavic territories. The extreme thinness of these single-sided pieces — a production method dominant in northern and eastern Germany but largely rejected by western mints — made them acutely vulnerable to folding and cracking, which is precisely why undamaged survivors are difficult to source.
The Bahrf. 329 attribution places this firmly within a contested typological group where die linkages between Brandenburg and neighboring Pomeranian issues remain incompletely resolved.
Brandenburg's bracteate deniers of the second half of the thirteenth century were struck under the Ascanians during a period when the margraviate was actively expanding eastward into Slavic territories. The extreme thinness of these single-sided pieces — a production method dominant in northern and eastern Germany but largely rejected by western mints — made them acutely vulnerable to folding and cracking, which is precisely why undamaged survivors are difficult to source.
The Bahrf. 329 attribution places this firmly within a contested typological group where die linkages between Brandenburg and neighboring Pomeranian issues remain incompletely resolved.