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Denier Bracteate Reval
| Issuer | Danish Estonia |
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| Year | 1219-1346 |
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| Technique | Hammered (bracteate) |
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| Reverse description | Uniface (bracteate) construction: the reverse displays the incuse mirror image of the obverse design, as is inherent to the bracteate technique whereby a thin silver flan is struck from a single die, producing a raised design on the obverse and a corresponding hollow impression on the reverse. No additional devices, legends, or decorative elements are present on the reverse. |
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| Mint | Reval (Tallinn) |
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Danish Estonia's coinage authority in Reval (modern Tallinn) produced these thin, single-sided bracteates following the 1219 conquest of northern Estonia by Valdemar II — a campaign that began as a crusade and ended as an annexation. The extreme thinness of the flan, a consequence of the bracteate technique, makes clean strikes exceptionally rare; most surviving examples show some degree of double-striking or flan cracking inherent to the type.
Haljak II#8 places this among the earliest documented coinage of the region, predating the transfer of Danish Estonia to the Teutonic Order in 1346 following the St. George's Night Uprising.