Catalog
Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1400-1450 |
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| Currency | Mark (1325-1552) |
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| Reverse description | Uniface bracteate; the reverse presents a faint, mirror-image incuse impression of the obverse castle design, as is typical of single-sheet hammered bracteate fabric, with no independent design, legend, or inscription of its own. |
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| Mintage | ND (1400-1450) |
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Hamburg's bracteate deniers of this period were struck during the city's consolidation as a self-governing commercial hub within the Hanseatic League, when municipal coinage policy was dictated as much by merchant guild interests as by any civic authority. The extreme thinness of bracteate fabric — a single-sided type struck on a thin flan — made these coins acutely vulnerable to damage, which explains why intact survivors are genuinely uncommon despite reasonably active original production.