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Denier Bracteate - Hermann I
| Issuer | Thuringia, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1190-1217 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Enthroned effigy of Landgrave Hermann I facing front, holding a sword in his right hand and a pennant-bearing lance in his left; the throne is rendered as a stylized architectural structure with a central arch flanked by two towers, conveying Romanesque palatial iconography. The composition is executed in the thin, single-sided relief characteristic of the bracteate tradition, with the figure occupying the full field. Drapery folds are rendered in a schematic, linear fashion typical of late 12th- to early 13th-century German die-cutting. No legend is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hermann I ruled Thuringia during one of the most turbulent successions in medieval German politics, backing Otto IV and then switching to Friedrich II — a calculation that kept the landgraviate sovereign while nearly every neighboring prince was ruined by the same conflict. Bracteates issued under his authority are among the thinner, more fragile examples of the type, and many surviving specimens show the characteristic stress fractures that come from coins struck on single-sided flans at this weight.