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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Brunswick-Luneburg |
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| Year | 1366-1378 |
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| Weight | 0.48 g |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided bracteate struck in thin silver sheet displaying a highly stylized heraldic lion in relief, facing left, rendered in the bold, schematic manner characteristic of late medieval North German coinage. The lion's body is composed of rounded pellet-like forms arranged in a compact, architectonic design occupying the central field. A square or rectangular element is visible at the base of the design, possibly representing a shield or architectural motif. The flan is irregular and slightly cupped, as is typical of the bracteate technique, with the image struck from one die only. |
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| Mintage | ND (1366-1378) |
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Brunswick-Lüneburg in the 1360s and 70s was a duchy fractured among competing Welf lines, and the bracteate coinage of this period reflects that fragmentation directly — multiple overlapping issues, shared types across branches, and attribution disputes that survive into modern scholarship. Denicke's catalog remains the primary reference precisely because the documentary record is so thin.
Bracteates of this weight class were effectively local small change, valid within tight geographic boundaries and frequently demonetized at the next dynastic shift.