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Denier Bracteate - Henry III
| Issuer | Abbey of Kempten |
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| Year | 1213-1218 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1213-1218) |
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The Abbey of Kempten was one of the oldest Benedictine foundations in the German lands, and by the early thirteenth century its abbots held the rank of imperial princes — a status that carried minting rights. Henry III served as abbot during a period when bracteate production in Swabia was already declining in favor of thicker regional pfennig types, making this issue a late expression of a dying format in the area.
The Cahn Koblenz reference places this firmly within a documented sequence, but surviving examples are scarce enough that die-linkage studies remain incomplete.