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Denier Bracteate - Gero of Schermke
| Issuer | Bishopric of Halberstadt |
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| Year | 1160-1177 |
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| Technique | Hammered (bracteate) |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, as is standard for bracteate coinage, which by its nature is struck from a single die onto a thin silver flan, leaving the reverse with only a mirror impression of the obverse design in incuse relief. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Gero of Schermke served as Bishop of Halberstadt from 1160 until his death in 1177, a tenure coinciding with the peak of Frederick Barbarossa's conflicts with Henry the Lion — tensions that deeply affected the Saxon ecclesiastical territories. Halberstadt bracteates of this period are among the thinnest and most technically demanding coins produced in medieval Germany, struck on a single die with the image pressing through to the reverse as a mirror incuse.
Berger 1297 is documented but genuinely scarce in the market. The Bishopric's minting rights in this period derived from imperial grant, not episcopal assumption.