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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 description | Half-length frontal bust of a bishop presented in orans-like posture, holding a crozier in one hand and a book (Bible) in the other, set beneath a double-arched canopy with angled gables. Above the figure, the façade of a Romanesque cathedral with a central tower flanked by two smaller towers is rendered in stylised relief, characteristic of medieval German bracteate die-cutting. The composition fills the broad, thin flan to the inner border, with the architectural and figural elements merging in the compressed single-sided relief typical of 13th-century Magdeburg ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1235-1254) |
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