Denier Bracteate - Conrad

The Lords of Waldenburg held minting rights in the upper Hohenlohe region during the late Hohenstaufen period, and bracteate production here reflects the broader fragmentation of coinage authority across the German interior at the time. These thin, single-sided strikes were the dominant small denomination across much of central and northern Germany through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries — a practical response to silver shortages that made double-sided striking wasteful at this module.

Schwink 467 is among the more localised attributions in the bracteate corpus, with die links helping anchor it to Waldenburg rather than neighbouring ecclesiastical mints operating simultaneously.