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Denier Bracteate - William II of Hardenberg
| Issuer | Werden and Helmstedt, Abbeys of |
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| Year | 1310-1330 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage, which is struck from a single die producing an incuse mirror image on the reverse. The surface is plain and uninscribed. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The joint coinage of the abbeys of Werden and Helmstedt reflects a practical arrangement between two Benedictine houses operating under shared economic pressure in the lower Saxony region during the early fourteenth century. Bracteates of this type are notoriously fragile — struck on a single thin flan from one die — and most circulating examples suffered cracking or distortion during routine handling. William II of Hardenberg served as abbot of Werden from roughly 1311; his named issues represent a narrow window of ecclesiastical minting authority before the region's monetary landscape consolidated under secular control.