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Denier Bracteate - Anonymous
| Issuer | Principality of Anhalt |
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| Year | 1250-1299 |
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| Weight | 0.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Enthroned frontal figure, likely a ruling prince or bishop, depicted in a stylized Romanesque manner within a beaded inner circle. The figure is seated in full face, wearing a long robe, with arms extended to either side each terminating in a patriarchal or processional cross. The composition is symmetrical and centrally placed within the bracteate field, with no legend present. The design is characteristic of mid-to-late 13th-century German bracteate coinage from the Anhalt region, rendered in low relief with the typical thin, single-sided strike of the bracteate technique. |
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| Mintage | ND (1250-1299) |
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Anhalt's bracteate issues from the second half of the thirteenth century were produced under the Ascanians during a period when the principality was repeatedly subdivided among competing branches of the dynasty. The anonymous attribution here reflects not ignorance but genuine historical ambiguity — these thin, single-sided pfennige circulated across territories whose political boundaries shifted faster than minting authority could be formally assigned.
Thorm. 404 places this among a recognized type, but bracteates of this region are notoriously difficult to pin to specific ruling lords without corroborating find-site evidence.