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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 | Single-sided bracteate design struck in low relief. A rampant lion facing right occupies the central field, rendered in a schematic medieval style with curling mane and raised forepaw. Immediately below the lion, a small annulet encloses a cross pattée, serving as a heraldic device. The entire composition is set within a plain inner circle, surrounded by the characteristic irregular serrated or lobed border typical of thin hammered bracteate coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage, which is struck on a single thin flan producing only a mirror-image incuse impression on the reverse. No design, legend, or device is present. |
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Brunswick-Lüneburg produced bracteates — coins struck on a single thin flan from one die, leaving the design in relief on one side and incuse on the other — as a regional monetary convention that persisted in northern Germany long after most other territories had abandoned the technique. The duchy's fragmented inheritance disputes and repeated partition among ducal lines meant that mint rights were split, consolidated, and reassigned across the two centuries this type spans, making die attribution a complex exercise that Berger and Denicke approach with notably different organizational logic.