Denier Bracteate - Hildbold of Wunstorf

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.