Catalog
Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1400-1435 |
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| Weight | 0.44 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1400-1435) |
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Hamburg's bracteate deniers of this period were struck during the city's consolidation as a self-governing commercial power within the Hanseatic League, when municipal coinage served the dense network of Baltic and North Sea trade rather than any feudal authority. The extreme thinness of bracteate fabric — a single-sided strike on a broad, fragile flan — made these coins poorly suited to heavy circulation, and surviving examples with intact edges are genuinely uncommon.
Jesse's classification remains the standard reference for northern German bracteates, though Gaedechens documented significant die variation within this Hamburg type.