Denier Bracteate - Adelhog of Dorstadt

Adelhog served as Bishop of Hildesheim from 1171 to 1190, a period of active minting in the Saxon region as ecclesiastical lords leveraged imperial privileges to produce thin, single-sided bracteate deniers for local commerce. The Hildesheim bracteate series from this era is documented by Mehl's exhaustive regional catalog, and Hild#66 sits among the more precisely attributed examples within a field where die identification often remains contested.