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| 表面の説明 | Uniface bracteate of crude, highly stylized workmanship typical of early Livonian ecclesiastical coinage. The die-struck relief presents an abstract arrangement of raised linear elements and pellets across the flan, generally interpreted as a debased architectural or figural motif. The design, characteristic of the primitive minting practices of the Bishopric of Dorpat under Bishop Hermann I, is rendered with irregular strokes that render precise identification of the central device uncertain. The flat, thin flan exhibits the characteristic translucent impressions inherent to bracteate production. |
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| 裏面の説明 | Uniface (bracteate); the reverse displays the incuse mirror image of the obverse design as is characteristic of all bracteate coinage, with no independent design, legend, or device struck on this side. |
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Hermann I von Buxhoeveden was appointed the first Bishop of Dorpat in 1224, following the Livonian Crusade's consolidation of the eastern Baltic under the sword brethren and German ecclesiastical authority. This bracteate — struck from a single die through a thin silver blank, producing a mirrored ghost impression on the reverse — represents the bishop's exercise of independent mint rights, a privilege granted alongside his territorial authority over the newly subjugated Estonian and Latvian populations. At 0.13 g, these pieces circulated in a frontier economy still integrating Germanic monetary practice with a region that had no prior coinage tradition of its own.