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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Dömitz, City of |
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| Year | 1250-1299 |
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| Technique | Hammered (bracteate) |
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| Obverse description | Within a raised outer ring, a stylized architectural structure depicted in low relief, featuring a central arched gateway surmounted by a cross above the roofline. The composition is rendered in the characteristic schematic manner of North German bracteate coinage of the late 13th century. Small pellets or dots are visible to either side of the inner ring, serving as decorative punctuation within the field. The entire design is struck on a thin, single-sided flan with the shallow, impressionistic relief typical of the bracteate technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Dömitz, a small fortified town on the Elbe in what is now Mecklenburg, exercised brief but documented minting rights during the second half of the thirteenth century — a period when hundreds of minor north German lordships and municipalities struck their own bracteate issues as imperial authority fragmented after the Hohenstaufen collapse. At 0.35g, this piece sits at the lighter end of the north German bracteate range, consistent with regional weight debasement that accelerated through the 1270s and 1280s.