Denier Bracteate - Henry I of Wernigerode

Henry I of Wernigerode served as Bishop of Hildesheim from 1246 to 1257, a period when bracteate coinage dominated northern German monetary circulation — these thin, single-sided silver pieces were a distinctly regional phenomenon, struck on such fragile flans that many surviving examples show stress cracks from the die pressure required to produce legible impressions.