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Denier Bracteate - Conrad II of Tegerfelden
| Issuer | Bishopric of Constance |
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| Year | 1210-1230 |
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| Reference(s) | CC#9, Cahn Ko#41, Slg. Wüthr#227 |
| Obverse description | Facing half-length episcopal effigy of Bishop Conrad II of Tegerfelden, depicted frontally within a raised inner circle, wearing a mitre adorned with lappets falling to either side of the head. The figure grasps a crozier with both hands held before the chest. The style is characteristic of early 13th-century Swabian bracteate coinage, with schematic facial features rendered in low relief. The entire design is enclosed within a bold outer beaded border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1210-1230) |
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Conrad II of Tegerfelden served as Bishop of Constance from 1209 to 1233, presiding over a diocese that was among the largest in the medieval German church — stretching from the Rhine to well into what is now Switzerland. Bracteates of this type were struck as the thin, single-sided fabric became the dominant small-denomination coinage of the Upper Rhine and Swabian regions during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, displacing the earlier double-sided denier almost entirely in this zone.
The Cahn corpus remains the foundational reference for Constance bracteate attribution, with Wüthrich's collection providing key die-link evidence for sequencing issues across Conrad's episcopate.