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Denier Bracteate - Henry I
| Issuer | Abbey of Kempten |
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| Year | 1197-1224 |
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| Technique | Hammered (bracteate) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Kempten |
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The Abbey of Kempten was among the oldest imperial abbeys in the Holy Roman Empire, its abbots holding the rank of Imperial Princes with the right to mint — a privilege confirmed repeatedly from the Carolingian period onward. Henry I served as abbot during a stretch of significant tension between the abbey and the citizens of Kempten, a conflict over jurisdictional authority that would simmer for generations before eventually stripping the abbots of practical urban control entirely.
Bracteates of this fabric, struck on a single thin flan with the design pressed through, were characteristic of Swabian ecclesiastical minting in this period and are notoriously fragile. The surviving population shows considerable flan cracks.