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Denier Bracteate - Siegfried III of Rechberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Augsburg |
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| Year | 1208-1227 |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a bishop in high relief, depicted frontally in a stylized Romanesque manner, wearing a mitre and vestments. The figure holds a crozier in the left hand and a cross or sceptre in the right, with both arms extended outward. The face is rendered in a schematic, archaic style with large eyes and broad features typical of early 13th-century German bracteate coinage. The central design is contained within a plain inner circle, surrounded by a decorative outer border of raised lobes or pellets forming an ornamental ring. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Siegfried III von Rechberg held the Augsburg see during one of the more turbulent stretches of Hohenstaufen-papal conflict, and coinage from his episcopate reflects the administrative fragmentation of southern German minting in the early thirteenth century. Bracteates of this type were struck on blanks so thin that surviving examples with intact fields are genuinely uncommon — the fabric simply could not withstand extended circulation or careless handling. Steinheimer 70 is among the scarcer attributed Augsburg episcopal types, with recorded specimens turning up almost exclusively in southern German hoards.