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Denier Bracteate Ravensburg mint
| Issuer | City of Ravensburg |
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| Year | 1250-1270 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a stylized city gate or fortified tower with three turrets, the central turret surmounted by a pointed dome, flanked by two smaller square towers with crenellations, all rising above an arched gateway. The architectural motif is rendered in low relief in the characteristic bracteate technique, struck on a single thin flan. The design is enclosed within a plain inner ring, itself surrounded by a border of raised pellets arranged around the full circumference. The field is smooth and unlettered, the entire composition conveying the civic emblem of Ravensburg in a Romanesque-Gothic transitional style. |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, the reverse presents a uniface incuse mirror impression of the obverse design, showing the three-towered city gate motif in negative relief. The thin silver flan is characteristic of south German bracteate coinage of the mid-thirteenth century, with the pellet border visible in ghost form. No inscription or additional device is present on the reverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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