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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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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, this coin has no independent reverse design; the reverse face displays the incuse mirror impression of the obverse relief, characteristic of the bracteate coining technique in which a single die strikes a thin silver flan against a leather or lead cushion. |
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Wilbrand of Käfernburg held the archbishopric through one of the more turbulent stretches of mid-13th century German ecclesiastical politics, navigating competing loyalties during the prolonged conflict between imperial and papal factions that fractured the Holy Roman Empire following Frederick II's excommunication. Magdeburg's position on the Elbe made it both commercially vital and politically exposed, and the archbishops exercised broad minting rights that produced a remarkable variety of bracteate types across short episcopal tenures.
The large thin flan of Magdeburg bracteates from this period is notoriously prone to edge cracking — a structural consequence of the single-die striking method rather than any flaw in the silver itself.