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Denier Bracteate - Christian of Buch
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1167-1183 |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage, which is struck on a single thin flan producing only an incuse mirror image on the reverse with no independent design. |
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| Mint | Mainz |
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Christian of Buch served as Archbishop of Mainz from 1165 while simultaneously functioning as Frederick Barbarossa's imperial chancellor and one of his most active military commanders in Italy — an unusual dual role that kept him absent from his diocese for extended stretches. The thin, single-sided bracteate format dominated German ecclesiastical coinage during this period precisely because the flans were cheaper and faster to produce, useful for an issuing authority whose administration was perpetually stretched by imperial commitments.
Berger 2383 is among the more documented of Christian's bracteate types, though attribution within his issues can be complicated by the absence of consistent mint signatures across the Mainz series.