Denier Bracteate - Günther IV of Schwarzburg

Günther IV ruled Schwarzburg-Blankenburg during a period when bracteate production in Thuringia was at its peak, with dozens of small ecclesiastical and secular lords each maintaining their own issues — thin, fragile, and almost never traveling far from the region of their minting. The extreme thinness of this fabric makes clean strikes the exception; most surviving examples show some degree of cracking or peripheral loss simply from the mechanics of the hammering process.

Gaettens 975 is among the less frequently traded Schwarzburg bracteate references.