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Denier Bracteate - Anonymous
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1317-1327 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design: the Latin cross appearing recessed into the flan, surrounded by a corresponding inner circle in negative relief. The thin, single-sided nature of the flan is characteristic of bracteate coinage, where the die impression penetrates through to produce an inverse impression on the back. The surface is plain with no additional devices or inscriptions. |
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| Mintage | ND (1317-1327) |
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The Teutonic Order's Prussian minting activity in the early fourteenth century operated under a peculiar administrative ambiguity — these anonymous deniers were issued without attribution to a specific Grand Master, a deliberate practice that obscured accountability during a period of intense friction with the Polish crown and shifting territorial claims along the Baltic frontier. The bracteate form, already archaic by this point in most of western Europe, persisted in Prussia partly through conservatism and partly because the thin single-sided fabric was cheaper to produce at low silver content.
The Waschinski 151a attribution places this among the rarer die pairings in the series.