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Denier Bracteate - Otto
| Issuer | Hessen, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1308-1326 |
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| Weight | 0.35 g |
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| Obverse description | Stylized lion passant to right, rendered in low relief within a beaded inner circle, the body depicted in a schematic medieval manner characteristic of Hessian bracteate coinage. Six rosettes distributed symmetrically to either side of the lion in the field. The entire design is enclosed within a plain outer border with an additional ring of pellets, consistent with the hammered bracteate technique of the early fourteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Otto I of Hesse ruled during a period when thin, single-sided bracteate coinage was already declining across the German lands in favor of thicker, two-sided pfennigs. His issues are transitional pieces, struck with shallow dies on wafer-thin flans that distort easily — which explains why well-preserved examples are genuinely scarce. The Schütz I#63 variety designation signals a die deviation from the principal recorded type, though the precise nature of that variation is not always consistently documented across collections.