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Denier Bracteate - Conrad IV Ulm mint
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1250-1270 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Obverse description | Facing crowned bust of the ruler in high relief, the three-pointed crown rendered in schematic linear style characteristic of mid-13th century Swabian bracteates. The effigy holds a lily sceptre in each raised hand, the fleur-de-lis finials of which extend outward symmetrically without touching the inner bead ring. The design is framed by a plain inner ring and a bold outer border of large, evenly spaced pellets, with no legend present in the field. |
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| Reverse description | Blank incuse reverse, characteristic of bracteate coinage, showing the mirror impression of the obverse design pressed through the thin silver flan during the single-die hammering process. |
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Conrad IV died in 1254, making the upper bound of this issue's date range attributable to the interregnum period or to his successor claimants rather than to Conrad himself — the attribution to Conrad IV is essentially a bracket of convenience. Ulm was a key imperial mint city on the Danube, and bracteate production there during the mid-thirteenth century reflects the fragmentation of minting authority that accelerated after the Staufen collapse.
At 0.49g and struck on a single-sided flan, bracteates of this weight class were vulnerable to folding and cracking in circulation. Berger's corpus remains the standard reference for southwest German bracteates of this period.