Denier Bracteate

Worms had been minting its own bracteates intermittently since the medieval period, but by the late sixteenth century the form was an anachronism — most German cities had long abandoned single-sided fabric coinage in favor of thicker, double-sided pieces. This tiny issue persisted largely because the bracteate's negligible silver content suited fractional exchange in a city whose monetary weight still carried the memory of the 1521 Diet.