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Denier Bracteate - Conrad III of Lichtenberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Strasbourg |
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| Year | 1273-1299 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Standing frontal figure of an angel rendered in low relief, flanked on both sides by a continuous border of raised pellets arranged in an arc encircling the central design. The angel is depicted in a schematic, hieratic style characteristic of late 13th-century Alsatian bracteate coinage, with the figure appearing to hold a cross. The thin hammered flan imparts a slightly concave profile to the design, with the field showing the typical shallow relief of the bracteate technique. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Conrad III of Lichtenberg presided over the Bishopric of Strasbourg during a period of acute tension between the episcopal see and the city's burghers, who were steadily consolidating communal autonomy throughout the late thirteenth century. Bracteates of this diocese are structurally fragile — struck on a single thin flan with the design pressed through to the reverse as a mirror image — and surviving examples in collectible condition are genuinely scarce, less because of rarity at issue than because the type simply does not survive handling.