Denier Bracteate - Udalschalk of Eschenlohe

Udalschalk von Eschenlohe served as Bishop of Augsburg from 1184 until his death in 1202, a period during which the Augsburg mint produced thin, single-sided bracteates as the dominant local currency — a striking technology that had spread across German-speaking lands during the twelfth century as a cost-efficient way to produce broadly readable coinage from minimal silver stock. The Steinh#58 attribution places this piece within Steinhilber's foundational typology of Swabian bracteates, the reference work against which Augsburg episcopal coinage of this period is still catalogued.