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Denier Bracteate - John II of Pfalz-Simmern
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1464-1475 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central device consisting of a quartered heraldic shield displaying the arms of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The outer border features the letter T repeated three times at equidistant intervals around the rim, serving as a stylized marginal inscription. The design is executed in the characteristic single-sided bracteate technique, with the relief pressed through a thin silver flan. The overall composition is typical of late medieval German ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Blank incuse reverse, as is standard for bracteate coinage of this type, where the design from the obverse die appears in mirror-image relief on the reverse side of the thin silver flan. |
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John II of Pfalz-Simmern held the archbishopric of Magdeburg from 1464 until his death in 1475, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the city of Magdeburg over jurisdictional and fiscal autonomy. Bracteates of this type — struck on wafer-thin flans from a single die — were the dominant small-denomination coinage across much of the north German ecclesiastical territory well into the fifteenth century, long after they had been abandoned elsewhere.
The Schr#32 reference places this piece within Schröter's corpus of Magdeburg bracteate coinage, a catalog that remains the primary scholarly reference for attributing these fragile issues.