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Denier Bracteate - Ludolf of Kroppenstedt
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1192-1205 |
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| Reference(s) | Mehl Magd#460 , HAU MM#2884 , Bonh#682 , Berger#1535 - 1536 |
| Obverse description | Nimbed bust of St. Maurice facing forward, positioned above a broad Romanesque building whose ridge ends are each surmounted by a ball finial; the saint holds a cross-staff in his right hand and a palm frond in his left. In the lower field, directly in front of the building facade, appears a prominent eight-spoke wheel, the heraldic emblem of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. The composition is rendered in high relief in the characteristic bracteate technique, with bold, simplified modeling typical of late 12th-century Saxon die work. No legend is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (1192-1205) |
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Ludolf of Kroppenstedt served as Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1192 to 1205, a period when the archbishopric was navigating the turbulent politics of the Hohenstaufen succession and its tangled relationships with both the imperial court and the Saxon nobility. Magdeburg bracteates of this era were struck for a regional economy in which thin single-sided silver coins dominated exchange east of the Rhine — a monetary convention that never took hold in the western Empire.
The Berger reference spanning two sequential numbers suggests at least one known die variant within this type.