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Denier Bracteate - Henry of Harburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1142-1153 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is standard for bracteate coinage of this period, where the design is struck on a single thin flan resulting in a mirror-image incuse impression on the reverse side with no independent design elements. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Henry of Harburg served as Archbishop of Mainz from 1142 until his death in 1153, a period marked by his close alignment with Conrad III and the Staufen cause during the prolonged struggle against the Welfs. Bracteates from Mainz in this period were struck on exceptionally thin flans — a technology still being refined in the mid-twelfth century — which makes undamaged survivors genuinely scarce. The Mainz mint was among the earliest in the German lands to adopt bracteate production at scale.