Denier Bracteate - Hartwig II of Hirnheim

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.