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Denier Bracteate - Hildbold of Wunstorf
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Bremen |
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| Year | 1258-1273 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin is struck from a single die on a thin silver flan, resulting in a reverse that presents an incuse mirror image of the obverse design. The incuse impression shows the negative relief of the frontal bust and the horizontal key, characteristic of all bracteate coinage of this period and region. The reverse surface is plain and unadorned beyond the incuse impression, with an irregular, slightly concave flan profile typical of mid-thirteenth century Lower Saxon bracteate production. |
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Hildbold of Wunstorf served as Archbishop of Bremen from 1258 to 1273, a period defined largely by his conflicts with the city of Bremen itself — tensions between episcopal authority and an increasingly assertive merchant commune that would eventually culminate in Bremen's formal independence generations later. Bracteates of this type circulated almost exclusively within a tight regional zone; their fragility made long-distance travel functionally destructive to the coins themselves.
The Jungk and Berger references place this squarely within the documented episcopal bracteate sequence for Bremen, a series notorious among collectors for the difficulty of attributing individual dies to specific reigns without corroborating hoard evidence.