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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Magdeburg, City of |
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| Year | 1592-1612 |
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| Weight | 0.31 g |
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| Obverse description | The municipal arms of Magdeburg displayed prominently in the field: a divided shield featuring the city's heraldic devices, surmounted by an eagle or figure in the upper register, characteristic of late 16th-century German civic heraldry. The design is struck in the bracteate technique, producing a thin, single-sided flan with the image rendered in relief on the obverse and as a corresponding incuse impression visible on the reverse. The irregular flan edges and soft relief are typical of hammered pfennig coinage of the period. No surrounding legend is present. |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage, which by its nature of single-sided striking leaves the reverse as a plain, featureless surface showing only the faint incuse shadow of the obverse design pressed through the thin silver flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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