Denier Bracteate

Bracteates of this weight class — under 0.30g — represent the extreme thin end of late thirteenth-century south German minting practice, where local ecclesiastical and secular lords struck coins so fragile that many survive only as fragments. The type assigned RW#119 falls within a period of intense monetary fragmentation in the Empire, when the absence of central minting authority produced hundreds of distinct local issues within a single generation.