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Denier Bracteate - Conrad of Wettin
| Issuer | Margravate of Meissen |
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| Year | 1130-1156 |
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| Weight | 0.84 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Conrad of Wettin acquired the Margravate of Meissen in 1127 after a prolonged succession dispute following the death of Henry the Strong, and his coinage reflects the administrative consolidation of a frontier march still heavily contested between German imperial interests and Slavic political pressure. Bracteates — struck on a single thin flan from one die — dominated Saxon and Thuringian minting from the twelfth century onward precisely because their fragility discouraged hoarding and enforced local circulation, a feature that suited marcher lords managing closed regional economies.