Denier Bracteate - Anonymous Sword right, key left and down, star left, right, and above

Dorpat — modern Tartu, Estonia — was a Livonian bishop's seat whose monetary authority operated in constant tension with the Teutonic Knights and the town's merchant class throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. These anonymous bracteates circulated across a Baltic region where German commercial penetration was reshaping local exchange networks, and the near-century-long attribution window reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty: the types were struck under multiple bishops and re-issued without updating iconography. At 0.13 g, these were among the most fragile coins in regular Livonian use, and surviving examples without buckling or flan splits are genuinely uncommon.