Denier Bracteate - Siegfried III of Rechberg

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.