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Denier Bracteate - John and Albrecht
| Issuer | Brunswick-Luneburg |
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| Year | 1252-1267 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | Uniface bracteate; the reverse is blank, showing only the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design as an inherent consequence of the single-die hammered bracteate technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This bracteate was struck under the joint rule of John and Albrecht of the House of Welf, during a period when Brunswick-Lüneburg was divided among competing dynastic branches following the death of Otto the Child in 1252. The practice of co-issuing coinage between siblings was a deliberate political instrument in the fragmented Welf territories, where minting rights were among the most jealously guarded prerogatives of lordship.
Bracteate production in this region peaked through the mid-thirteenth century before giving way to thicker bilateral pfennigs. The Denicke and Berger references place this type firmly within the Brunswick civic series rather than the episcopal issues, a distinction that matters for provenance.