Denier Bracteate - Henry VI

Henry VI, Landgrave of Thuringia, held the Weida bailiwick during a period when bracteate production across the Thuringian-Meißen region was at its administrative and artistic peak. These thin, single-sided strikes were the dominant small-change currency of central Germany through much of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries — not by preference, but because the shallow silver deposits of the region made full-flan double-sided coinage economically impractical at this denomination. Berger 2063 is among the more localized attributions in the series, tied to a minor lordship rather than an episcopal or comital mint.