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Denier Bracteate - Albert of Mecklenburg
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1364-1389 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage struck from a single die on a thin silver flan. The concave field displays the incuse impression of the crowned letter S and flanking pellet, with the surrounding ring border visible in negative relief. No independent design or inscription is present on the reverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Albert of Mecklenburg claimed the Swedish throne in 1364 after a coalition of disaffected Swedish magnates invited him to displace Magnus Eriksson, whose reign had become politically and financially untenable. These thin, fragile bracteates — struck on a single die through a single face of the blank — represent the coinage of a king who spent much of his reign fighting to hold what he had been handed, and ultimately lost it to Margaret I of Denmark at the Battle of Åsle in 1389, the same year his coinage ceased.