Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Denier Bracteate - William II of Hardenberg
| Issuer | Werden and Helmstedt, Abbeys of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1310-1330 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Berger#1047 |
| Obverse description | A seated abbot shown in frontal view, rendered in low relief typical of bracteate coinage, flanked symmetrically by two towers with distinctive arrow-head or pointed roof finials. The central figure is depicted in ecclesiastical vestments, with the composition filling the flat, thin flan characteristic of medieval German bracteate production. The architectural elements flanking the abbot suggest abbatial authority and institutional identity. No legend is present; the design relies entirely on the figural and architectural motifs for identification. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Blank, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage, which by its single-sided striking technique produces only an incuse mirror impression on the reverse corresponding to the obverse design. The reverse surface is plain and undecorated. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Werden and Helmstedt operated as a paired Benedictine institution with shared abbatial leadership for stretches of the medieval period, and their joint coinage issues are among the more administratively peculiar of the Lower Saxon ecclesiastical mints. William II of Hardenberg served as abbot across both houses, and bracteates struck under his authority fall into a narrow window of production when thin-flan silver coinage was already in regional decline — most of the Rhine and Westphalian territories had moved toward thicker pfennig forms by the early fourteenth century.