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Denier Bracteate - John II
| Issuer | Burgraviate of Friedberg |
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| Year | 1541-1569 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface bracteate struck in low relief displaying the Friedberg civic arms: a quartered shield bearing an eagle in the upper dexter and sinister quarters, with architectural elements and pellets in the lower quarters. The design is executed in the characteristic thin-flan hammered bracteate style, with the irregular flan edges showing typical production characteristics of 16th-century German pfennig coinage. Small pellets are distributed within the field as decorative or differentiating elements. No legend is present. |
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| Mintage | 1541 - - 1542 - - 1543 - - 1544 - - 1545 - - 1546 - - 1547 - - 1548 - - 1549 - - 1550 - - 1551 - - 1552 - - 1553 - - 1554 - - 1555 - - 1556 - - 1557 - - 1558 - - 1559 - - 1560 - - 1561 - - 1562 - - 1563 - - 1564 - - 1565 - - 1566 - - 1567 - - 1568 - - 1569 - - |
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Friedberg's bracteate tradition persisted well into the sixteenth century, long after most German minting authorities had abandoned the form entirely. John II held the burgraviate during a period of intense Imperial pressure on minor lords, and the continued use of thin, single-sided coinage was as much a practical concession to limited silver stocks as it was conservatism.
Lejeune's cataloging of this type remains the primary reference precisely because the series attracted little outside scholarly attention — the Burgraviate of Friedberg was a small Imperial immediacy whose monetary output was strictly local in reach.