Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Denier Bracteate - Frederick I Frankfurt mint
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
|---|---|
| Year | 1170-1180 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Facing enthroned emperor depicted in frontal view, crowned and robed in imperial regalia, raising his right hand and holding an imperial orb in his left hand. The figure is rendered in the flat, stylized Romanesque manner characteristic of mid-12th-century German bracteates. Two small crosses flank the emperor at the sides, with pellets or annulets disposed in the upper field to either side. The design occupies the full concave flan typical of the bracteate technique, with no encircling legend. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (1170-1180) |
| Additional information |
Frederick Barbarossa held Frankfurt as an imperial domain directly under crown control, and the deniers struck there during the 1170s reflect the administrative push to consolidate minting rights away from ecclesiastical authorities. The bracteate form — struck on a single thin flan so that the design appears in relief on one side and incuse on the other — was by this period already dominant in the northern and central German minting tradition, though it never fully displaced the double-sided denier in imperial territories further west.
Hävernick's classification of this type as number 4 places it among the earliest attributed Frankfurt imperial issues.