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Denier - John I and Otto III
| Issuer | Brandenburg, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1250-1266 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Winged angelic figure standing facing, depicted in a highly stylized Romanesque manner, the head shown frontally with prominent facial features. The figure holds a lis-tipped scepter in each outstretched hand, with large spread wings filling the field to either side. The lower body terminates in a structured, architectural base rendered with horizontal registers, typical of mid-13th century Brandenburg bracteate-influenced coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse design, consistent with the bracteate-style thin silver coinage of the region, displaying the characteristic ghosted impression of the winged figure with scepters. The relief is shallow and the fields irregular, as expected from hammered single-die striking technique employed in medieval German principality coinage of the mid-13th century. |
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John I and Otto III ruled Brandenburg jointly from 1220 until their territories were formally divided in 1258, yet coinage issued under their shared authority continued well past that partition — this denier falls squarely in that ambiguous administrative period. Joint-rule coinage from the German margraviates is rarely tidy in its chronology, and the overlap between political reality and mint production makes precise dating within the 1250–1266 window genuinely difficult.
Brandenburg's deniers of this period were central to commerce along the Havel and Spree river corridors, where the Ascanians were aggressively consolidating control over Slavic territories east of the Elbe.