Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Denier Bracteate - John I
| Issuer | Abbey of Hersfeld |
|---|---|
| Year | 1200-1214 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Blank, as typical of bracteate coinage, which is struck on a single thin flan producing an incuse mirror impression on the reverse side. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Hersfeld Abbey held imperial immediacy — answerable to the emperor alone, not any intervening bishop — and that autonomy extended to the mint. John I's abbacy coincided with the turbulent dual-kingship period between Philip of Swabia and Otto IV, during which ecclesiastical mints across the Rhineland and Thuringia operated with unusual independence as central authority fragmented. The bracteate fabric itself, a technology almost exclusively German, required hammering silver thin enough that the design struck through as a mirror image on the reverse.
Berger's census for this type remains small.