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Denier Bracteate - Gero of Schermke
| Issuer | Bishopric of Halberstadt |
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| Year | 1160-1177 |
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| Reference(s) | Bonh#469, Fd.Freckl#73 |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin has only one struck face; the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, showing the recessed impression of the standing figure of Saint Stephen and the surrounding legend. The surface is characteristically uneven and concave, typical of single-sided hammered bracteate production from the Bishopric of Halberstadt in the second half of the twelfth century. |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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Gero of Schermke served as Bishop of Halberstadt from 1160 until his death in 1177, a tenure spent largely navigating the rivalry between Henry the Lion and Frederick Barbarossa — a conflict that put Saxon ecclesiastical lords in an impossible position of competing loyalties. Halberstadt's bracteate production during this period reflects that instability: thin, fragile, and struck on broad flans that were never intended for prolonged hand-to-hand exchange but rather for regional transactions within a tightly controlled ecclesiastical economy.
The Freckleben hoard reference places this type among finds from the Mansfeld region, suggesting a circulation radius that rarely strayed far from the diocese itself.