Denier Bracteate - John II

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.