Denier Bracteate

Brunswick issued these thin, single-sided bracteates well past the point when most German minting authorities had abandoned the fabric entirely — the Thirty Years' War severely disrupted normal coin production across the region, and lightweight emergency-adjacent issues like this one filled gaps left by hoarding and metal shortages. Jesse's catalog remains the primary reference for Brunswick bracteates, with #262 placing this type precisely within the city's wartime sequence.