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Denier Bracteate - Albert of Käfernburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg (German States) |
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| Year | 1205-1232 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Reverse description | Uniface bracteate; the reverse is blank and shows only the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, as is standard for this hammered thin-flan coinage type. |
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| Mint | Magdeburg |
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Albert of Käfernburg served as Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1205 to 1232, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the Ascanian margraves over territorial jurisdiction east of the Elbe. Bracteates — struck on a single thin flan so that the design punches through as a mirror image on the reverse — were the dominant small silver denomination across northern and central Germany through much of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a regional tradition that never fully took hold further west.
Magdeburg's mint output under Albert is reasonably well documented across the Berger and Bonhomme corpora, though die linkage studies suggest production was episodic rather than continuous across the full 27-year episcopate.