Denier Bracteate - Conrad III of Lichtenberg

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.