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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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| Technique | Hammered (bracteate) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin was struck on a single thin flan, producing only a single-sided design; the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse composition, showing the enthroned abbess flanked by attendant figures and architectural elements in negative relief, with no independent design or inscription. |
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Beatrix II ruled Quedlinburg as abbess during a period when the abbey held imperial immediacy — answerable to the emperor alone, not to any intervening bishop or lord. That status, confirmed repeatedly by Ottonian and Salian predecessors, gave the abbesses direct coinage rights, and thin bracteate production at Quedlinburg during the mid-twelfth century reflects the broader Saxon monetary shift away from the thick Carolingian denier toward the single-sided fabric that would dominate northern German minting for the next century.
Berger 1409 is among the scarcer attributed Quedlinburg bracteates, with die survival suggesting limited production runs rather than sustained mint activity.