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Denier Bracteate - Anonymous
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1360-1364 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Bracteate struck on a thin, irregular flan with a broad raised rim. The central device features a roughly rectangular shield or panel in relief, containing two pellets arranged side by side within the field. The design is characteristic of the anonymous small bracteate coinage issued by the Teutonic Order during the mid-fourteenth century, executed in a simple, schematic style typical of utilitarian Prussian bracteates of the period. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Teutonic Order operated its own mint infrastructure in Prussia from the mid-thirteenth century, striking coins to fund both administration and military campaigning along the Baltic frontier. This anonymous denier bracteate falls within the grand mastership of Winrich von Kniprode, whose tenure from 1351 to 1382 marked the political and territorial peak of the Order's Prussian state. Bracteates of this weight class circulated at the lowest denominational level, used for small market transactions in the Order's controlled trading towns along the Vistula.