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Denier Bracteate - Conrad IV Ulm mint
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1245-1250 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of a crowned ruler depicted in the Romanesque stylistic tradition, wearing a jewelled crown adorned with trefoil finials above a beaded headband. The effigy holds a sword diagonally across the body in the left hand and a floral sceptre or lily branch in the right hand, rendered in a schematic, hieratic manner typical of mid-13th-century Swabian bracteate coinage. The facial features are boldly modelled with large eyes, a straight nose, and a faint stylised smile, flanked by two pellets in the field. The central device is enclosed within a raised inner ring, itself surrounded by a broad outer border composed of alternating square bosses and lozenge-shaped pellets, forming a distinctive decorative frame characteristic of the Ulm mint's output under Conrad IV. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin is struck from a single die on a thin flan, producing a mirror-image incuse impression on the reverse corresponding directly to the obverse design. The reverse therefore presents a concave, negative rendering of the crowned royal bust with sword and floral sceptre, together with the incuse relief of the surrounding bosselated border. The thin silver flan shows characteristic bracteate fabric with slight irregularity at the edges, consistent with hand-hammered production at the Ulm mint during the reign of Conrad IV. |
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