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Denier Bracteate - Adelheid III of Sachsen
| Issuer | Abbey of Gandersheim |
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| Year | 1152-1184 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Facing veiled bust of an abbess rendered in low relief beneath a rounded beaded arch, flanked on either side by tall, ornately detailed towers with domed and tiered rooftops characteristic of Romanesque ecclesiastical architecture. The central structure above the arch depicts a domed basilica or abbey church with decorative latticed stonework, evoking the monastery of Gandersheim. The entire composition is contained within a beaded inner border and an outer rope-twist or cable border, typical of mid-12th-century north German bracteate coinage. The design is struck in the thin single-sided bracteate tradition, with the image showing through in mirror relief on the reverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Gandersheim |
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