Denier Bracteate - Anonymous

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.