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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1270-1280 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Obverse description | Displayed eagle rendered in a stylized Romanesque manner, featuring a prominent double-beaked head, abbreviated wings with elongated terminal feathers, and small rounded talons. The design is struck in high relief in bracteate fashion, with the image appearing as a mirror impression on the reverse. The overall composition is bold and schematic, characteristic of late 13th-century German bracteate coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse design, as is standard for bracteate coinage produced by striking a single thin flan from one die. The reverse shows no independent design, inscription, or mintmark. |
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Bracteates of this weight class were struck on flans so thin that a single die — applied to one face only — pushed the design through to create a mirror impression on the reverse. The technique was common across the German territories from the mid-twelfth century onward, but by the 1270s many regional mints were already transitioning back to double-sided coinage under pressure from Italian trading networks that found the fragile, single-sided pieces difficult to handle in bulk mercantile transactions.