Catalog
Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Lower Lusatia, Margravate of |
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| Reverse description | Blank incuse field, as typical of bracteate coinage, showing the mirror impression of the obverse design in intaglio relief resulting from the single-die striking technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lower Lusatia's bracteate deniers reflect the thin-flan striking technique that spread through the German-speaking lands during the 12th and 13th centuries, where single-die production left the design visible in relief on one face and incuse on the other. The Margravate itself was a contested frontier territory, passing between the Ascanian margraves, Bohemian kings, and eventually the Wettin dynasty through inheritance disputes that left its coinage politically fragmented and administratively inconsistent.
Bahrf. 262 is among the scarcer catalogued varieties of this issuer.