Cheb (Eger) operated with considerable monetary autonomy during the fifteenth century, a privilege fiercely guarded by the city council against repeated pressure from Bohemian royal authority. These bracteates — struck from a single die on an exceptionally thin flan — were a deliberately archaic choice for the period, a technology the region clung to long after double-sided coinage had become standard across most of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Donebauer reference numbers suggest two distinct die varieties within what is otherwise an undifferentiated type.
Cheb (Eger) operated with considerable monetary autonomy during the fifteenth century, a privilege fiercely guarded by the city council against repeated pressure from Bohemian royal authority. These bracteates — struck from a single die on an exceptionally thin flan — were a deliberately archaic choice for the period, a technology the region clung to long after double-sided coinage had become standard across most of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Donebauer reference numbers suggest two distinct die varieties within what is otherwise an undifferentiated type.