Denier Bracteate - John

John, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, ruled a territory whose bracteate coinage reflects the fragmented political geography of 13th-century northern Germany, where dozens of local lords struck thin single-sided pfennigs as much to assert jurisdictional identity as for commercial use. The extreme thinness of bracteate fabric — a technical consequence of striking on a single die — makes these pieces acutely vulnerable to creasing and rim loss, and Denicke 289 survivors in collectible condition are genuinely scarce.