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Denier Bracteate - Theodoric I
| Issuer | Margravate of Meissen |
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| Year | 1197-1221 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Blank incuse impression, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage, where the thin silver flan bears only the sunken mirror image of the obverse design on the reverse side with no intentional decorative or inscriptional elements. |
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| Mintage | ND (1197-1221) |
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Theodoric I of Meissen ruled during a period when the Wettin dynasty was consolidating control over Saxony's eastern marches, frequently navigating the fractious politics between the Hohenstaufen emperors and rival German princes. Bracteates of this type — struck from a single die on thin silver flans — were the dominant coinage of central and eastern Germany through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a regional preference that persisted long after western German territories had returned to double-sided striking.
Schwink 479b is a catalogued variety within a series notorious for die fragility; the large flan diameter relative to the coin's negligible thickness made edge splitting and die cracking routine production problems, not collector damage.