Denier Bracteate

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.