Denier Bracteate - Henry V

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.