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Denier Bracteate - Henry V
| Issuer | Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1302-1329 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | A stag passant to the right, depicted in relief above a semicircular arch, all rendered in the characteristic single-sided struck bracteate style. The stag is shown with stylized antlers and body in a simplified, bold design typical of medieval German minor coinage. The entire motif is contained within a beaded inner circle, itself surrounded by a plain outer border with irregular flan edges characteristic of bracteate production. |
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| Mintage | ND (1302-1329) |
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The counts of Stolberg, a small Harz region territory, issued these thin-flan bracteates during a period when the type was already commercially obsolete across most of Germany — double-sided pfennig coinage had taken over major minting centers by the late thirteenth century. Stolberg persisted with single-sided production well into the fourteenth century, partly from conservatism and partly because the bracteate's lower silver requirement suited a county of modest mining output.
Henry V's long reign across this bracket makes precise dating within the 1302–1329 window nearly impossible without die-linkage studies.