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Denier Bracteate - Frederick II, Vogt of Oldesleben
| Issuer | County of Beichlingen |
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| Year | 1189-1216 |
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| Technique | Hammered (bracteate) |
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| Obverse description | Equestrian figure of the count shown in profile riding to the right, brandishing a sword in his raised right hand while carrying a spear bearing a pennant flag and a shield in his left hand. The rider is depicted in a stylized, flat bracteate manner characteristic of late 12th- to early 13th-century German bracteate coinage. A single pellet appears in the upper right field. The overall composition fills the thin, uniface flan with bold relief typical of the bracteate technique. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface bracteate with a plain, uninscribed reverse, showing only the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design as an inherent consequence of the single-die hammered bracteate striking method. |
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Frederick II served as Vogt — an imperial advocate holding delegated judicial and administrative authority — for Oldesleben, a position that carried coin-striking rights in this corner of Thuringia during the high medieval fragmentation of minting authority under the Hohenstaufen emperors. Bracteates of this county are among the thinner-flan issues of the German interior, a consequence of regional silver scarcity rather than any deliberate monetary policy. The Fd.Seega hoard find reference places these pieces geographically; Seega itself lies in the Kyffhäuser district, and hoard dispersal patterns suggest local rather than long-distance circulation.