Denier Bracteate - Henry the Lion

Henry the Lion's tenure as Duke of Saxony and Bavaria made him one of the most powerful princes in the Holy Roman Empire — until Frederick Barbarossa moved against him in 1180, stripping him of both duchies and forcing him into exile in England at the court of his father-in-law, Henry II. Brunswick itself was the one territorial remnant he retained. These bracteates were struck across that long and turbulent reign, and the precise dating of individual dies remains contested; Denicke's sequencing is the most granular attempt to impose order on the series.