Denier Bracteate - Wichmann of Seeburg

Wichmann von Seeburg served as Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1152 until his death in 1192, a remarkably long tenure during which he rebuilt the city's infrastructure, expanded colonization east of the Elbe, and maintained a delicate political balance between Frederick Barbarossa and the Saxon nobility following Henry the Lion's fall from imperial favor in 1180. Bracteates of this period reflect Magdeburg's growing commercial reach into Slavic territories — thin-flan silver coinage circulated aggressively through markets the archbishopric was actively working to dominate.