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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Brunswick-Luneburg |
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| Year | 1296-1498 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the Brunswick lion passant sinister in high relief, depicted in a bold, stylized medieval manner characteristic of bracteate coinage. A small cross pattee appears above the lion's back and a second cross pattee is positioned below, between the lion's legs. The single-sided uniface design is pressed in fine silver, with the reverse left entirely blank as is typical of bracteate fabric. |
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| Mintage | ND (1296-1498) |
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Brunswick-Lüneburg's bracteate deniers occupy an unusual position in north German numismatics — the duchy's fragmented inheritance patterns meant these thin, single-sided strikes were produced under a rotating cast of co-rulers and divided lines, making attribution to specific issuing lords genuinely difficult even with a firm Denicke reference. Denicke 250 falls within a two-century production window that survived long after bracteate coinage had been abandoned across most of the Holy Roman Empire.
The persistence of the form in this region was largely practical: local market custom resisted the thicker bilateral pfennig adopted elsewhere.