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Denier Bracteate - Henry VI of Swinrode
| Issuer | Hersfeld, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1292-1300 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of Saint Boniface, patron of Hersfeld Abbey, depicted in ecclesiastical vestments and wearing a mitre, set within a beaded inner circle. The figure holds a crosier or staff in the left hand and raises the right hand in a gesture of benediction. The design is rendered in the flat, single-sided bracteate technique characteristic of late thirteenth-century German ecclesiastical coinage. A Latin legend naming the saint runs along the outer circumference, partially legible on the irregular flan. The overall style reflects the provincial hammered workmanship of the Hersfeld Abbey mint. |
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| Obverse lettering | S BONIFACIVS P.-K. |
| Reverse description | As a bracteate, the reverse presents the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, showing the indented impression of the frontal bust of Saint Boniface with vestments and mitre visible in negative relief. The surrounding legend appears in reverse as is typical of single-sheet bracteate coinage produced by hammering a thin silver flan over a single die. The surface displays the characteristic concavity and irregular edge of late medieval German bracteate manufacture. No independent reverse design or inscription is present. |
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