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Denier Bracteate - Beatrix II of Winzenburg
| Issuer | Abbey of Quedlinburg |
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| Year | 1138-1160 |
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| Weight | 0.91 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1138-1160) |
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Beatrix II ruled Quedlinburg as abbess during a turbulent stretch of Saxon politics, her tenure overlapping with the conflicts surrounding the Investiture controversy's long aftermath and the rise of Henry the Lion. Quedlinburg held the rare privilege of imperial immediacy — answerable directly to the emperor, not any intervening bishop — which gave its abbesses the authority to issue coinage in their own name.
Bracteates of this type are structurally fragile by nature, struck on a single-sided thin flan that distorts easily, which accounts for the scarcity of well-preserved examples across all Quedlinburg abbess issues. Berger 1400 is among the more precisely attributed pieces in a series where die identification remains genuinely difficult.