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Denier Bracteate - Anonymous
| Issuer | Principality of Anhalt |
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| Year | 1250-1299 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a standing frontal figure, likely a ruler or bishop, rendered in low relief characteristic of thin bracteate coinage. The figure appears robed and is flanked on either side by stylized foliate or architectural elements, possibly towers or branches, suggesting heraldic or emblematic framing. The composition is enclosed within a beaded or rope-like inner circle, itself set within the irregularly shaped flan typical of thirteenth-century hammered bracteates. The design is executed in the simplified, slightly schematic artistic style common to Central German bracteate production of the late Hohenstaufen and early interregnum period. No legible inscription or legend is present, consistent with the anonymous classification of this issue. |
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| Mintage | ND (1250-1299) |
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Anhalt's bracteate deniers from this period were struck under the divided lordship that followed the 1252 partition among the sons of Heinrich I, leaving multiple small courts each operating their own dies with minimal central oversight. The resulting proliferation of types — Thorm. 356 among them — makes attribution to a specific lord nearly impossible without a documented find context.