Denier Bracteate - Conrad of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Conrad of Brunswick-Lüneburg served as Bishop of Verden from 1269 to 1300, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the cathedral chapter over jurisdictional authority. Bracteates of this diocese are notoriously thin-flan issues, struck on a single die with the reverse image appearing as an incuse mirror impression — a technique that made them fragile and prone to cracking, which explains why intact survivors are seldom encountered. Jesse 244 places this type within a well-documented northern German regional tradition, but Verden's output remains among the less-studied sequences in that corpus.