Denier Bracteate - Adolf of Nassau Frankfurt mint

Adolf of Nassau's reign as King of the Romans lasted just six years before the Electoral princes — dissatisfied with his military failures and perceived abandonment of their interests — took the extraordinary step of formally deposing him in 1298, the first such deposition of a sitting German king. He died at the Battle of Göllheim weeks later, fighting his own successor. The Frankfurt mint operated under royal prerogative during this window, and output was limited by both the brevity of the reign and the political instability that defined it.

Bracteates of this type are struck on such thin flans that die alignment and centering vary considerably across surviving examples.