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Denier Bracteate - Werner of Eppstein and Henry I of Hessen
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1263-1284 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Obverse description | Two enthroned figures facing forward, depicted in high relief characteristic of the bracteate technique, seated side by side beneath an arched canopy or architectural element rendered in a Romanesque style. The left figure, representing the Archbishop Werner of Eppstein, wears a mitre and vestments, holding a pastoral staff or sceptre, while the right figure, identified as Landgrave Henry I of Hessen, appears similarly robed in regal attire. The entire central design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, itself surrounded by an outer border of large raised pellets distributed evenly around the coin's circumference. The thin hammered flan exhibits the characteristic convex relief on the obverse and corresponding incuse impression on the reverse, typical of thirteenth-century German bracteate coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Mainz Mint |
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