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Denier Bracteate 'Moritzpfennig' - Wichmann of Seeburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1152-1170 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Frontal effigy of Saint Maurice, patron saint of Magdeburg, depicted as a warrior figure with a nimbus or beaded halo, wearing a helmet and holding a sword in his left hand and a shield or banner in his right. The saint is shown in Romanesque stylized relief, rendered in the flat, single-sided bracteate technique characteristic of 12th-century Saxon coinage. A cross pattée appears to the right of the figure, and a partial Latin legend in archaic letterforms runs along the outer beaded border of the flan. The overall composition is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, the irregular flan edges showing the characteristic folded and cracked margins typical of thin hammered bracteate production. |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin has no true reverse; the reverse face displays only the incuse, mirror-image impression of the obverse design, showing the negative relief of Saint Maurice and the surrounding legend pressed through the thin silver flan during the single-die striking process. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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