Denier Bracteate

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.