Denier Bracteate - Elgerus III

Hohnstein was a minor Saxon county whose coinage output was modest even by regional standards, but the bracteate series produced under Elgerus III falls within a broader explosion of thin-flan silver coinage across the German lands during the late 12th and early 13th centuries — a format that dominated Thuringian and Saxon circulation precisely because it was cheap to produce and easy to clip for smaller transactions. The Seega hoard reference places this type among coins recovered from a find context that has been critical for establishing bracteate chronologies in lower Saxony.