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Denier Bracteate - Wilbrand of Käfernburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1235-1254 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage struck on a single thin flan from one die, leaving the reverse with only the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wilbrand of Käfernburg served as Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1235 until his death in 1253, a tenure marked by ongoing friction with the Hohenstaufen imperial court and persistent efforts to consolidate ecclesiastical landholdings east of the Elbe. The bracteate coinage issued under his authority belongs to a minting tradition particular to central and northern Germany, where thin single-sided silver coins dominated local exchange while the heavier double-struck deniers of the west remained largely absent.
Bonh#719 is among the more precisely attributable types in the Käfernburg series, distinguished by die characteristics documented in Bonhoff's corpus.