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Denier Bracteate - Hildbold of Wunstorf
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Bremen |
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| Year | 1258-1273 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1258-1273) |
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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.