Denier Bracteate - Anonymous

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.