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Denier Bracteate - Gebhard VI
| Uitgever | Querfurt, Burgraviate of |
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| Jaar | 1216-1240 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Within a beaded inner circle, a centrally placed helmet surmounted by a pair of outward-curving bull horns, rendered in low relief typical of bracteate coinage. Below the helmet, two downward-extending foliate or branch-like ornaments flank the base of the design, serving as heraldic supports. The overall composition is contained within the shallow, uniface flan characteristic of medieval German bracteates, with an irregularly shaped outer border. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Uniface bracteate; the reverse presents a blank, slightly concave field displaying the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design, as is standard for bracteate coinage of this period. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Gebhard VI ruled Querfurt during a period when the Hohenstaufen-Welf conflict repeatedly destabilized Saxon lordships, and the bracteate coinage of the region reflects that instability — thin, fragile, and minted in quantities that suggest interrupted rather than sustained production. The Querfurt burgraves operated with considerable autonomy during this stretch, their minting rights effectively unchallenged while imperial attention was consumed by Friedrich II's campaigns in Italy and the ongoing struggle over the German throne.
Bracteates of this weight class were particularly vulnerable to hoarding damage, and surviving examples attributable to Gebhard VI by the Bonhoff and Bahrfeldt references tend to arrive with the characteristic radial stress fractures of careless extraction from hoard finds.