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Denier Bracteate - Henry I of Harburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1142-1153 |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is typical of bracteate coinage, where the thin flan bears only the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design with no intentional reverse type or inscription. |
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| Mint | Mainz |
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Henry I of Harburg served as Archbishop of Mainz during a period when the archbishopric was deeply entangled in the investiture struggles still reverberating after the Concordat of Worms. Bracteates of this issue were struck at a time when Mainz held primacy among German ecclesiastical mints, and the thinness of the flan — a structural necessity of bracteate production, not a deficiency — made these coins notoriously fragile in circulation. Surviving examples with full, uncracked flans are genuinely scarce.