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Denier Bracteate - Frederick I Altenburg
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1152-1190 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Obverse description | Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa enthroned facing, crowned, depicted in frontal majesty with bare torso, raising a fleur-de-lis sceptre in his right hand and holding a globus cruciger in his left; a pellet or annulet appears to the left of the figure in the field. The effigy is rendered in the bold, high-relief style characteristic of Thuringian bracteate coinage, with the entire design enclosed within a beaded inner border, itself set within the irregularly shaped flan typical of hammered bracteates. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Uniface bracteate; the reverse is entirely blank, displaying only the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design pressed through the thin silver flan during striking, as is standard for bracteate coinage of this period. |
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