Denier Bracteate - Henry III

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.