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Denier Bracteate - Hartwig II of Hirnheim
| Issuer | Bishopric of Augsburg |
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| Year | 1202-1208 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is typical of bracteate coinage, which is struck on a thin flan from a single die, leaving the reverse as an incuse mirror image of the obverse design with no additional decoration or inscription. |
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| Mint | Augsburg |
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Hartwig II served as Bishop of Augsburg during a period of acute tension between the papacy and the Hohenstaufen imperial line, and his episcopate coincided almost exactly with the disputed German succession crisis following the death of Henry VI in 1197. Local ecclesiastical mints like Augsburg's produced bracteates partly because their thin, single-sided fabric required less silver at a moment when bullion was being aggressively claimed by competing political factions. The Steinh#61 attribution places this squarely within a small, documented sequence for his reign.