Denier Bracteate - Otto

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.