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Denier Bracteate - Adelheid III of Sachsen
| Issuer | Abbey of Quedlinburg |
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| Year | 1161-1184 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1161-1184) |
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Adelheid III presided over Quedlinburg during a period of sustained conflict between the abbey and the surrounding secular nobility over territorial rights — disputes that required the house to assert its autonomy through every available means, coinage among them. Quedlinburg held imperial immediacy, answering directly to the emperor rather than any intervening lord, and its right to strike was an expression of that status rather than merely a commercial convenience.
The Freckleben hoard find reference places this type among a geographically coherent group of Saxony bracteates, recovered together and providing the primary dating evidence for the series.