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Denier Bracteate - Frederick I Frankfurt mint
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1152-1190 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Frontal crowned bust of Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) within a central field, depicted with a lily scepter held in the right hand and an imperial orb in the left. Above the imperial effigy, a three-arched arcade surmounts a three-towered architectural structure, representing the city of Frankfurt. The legend FRIDERIC appears within the thinly struck bracteate fabric, characteristic of the single-sided hammered coinage of the period. The design is executed in the Romanesque style typical of mid-twelfth-century imperial pfennige. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Blank field, as is typical of bracteate coinage, which is struck from a single die on a thin flan, producing only an incuse mirror image on the reverse with no independent design. |
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