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Denier - Louis I
| Issuer | Bavaria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1220-1230 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Enthroned secular figure, identified as Duke Louis I, shown full-length in a frontal attitude, holding a lily-headed sceptre in the right hand and a banner or flag in the left, symbolizing ducal authority. The field is scattered with small stars or rosettes as decorative filler elements, a characteristic feature of Bavarian coinage of this period. The design is enclosed within a pearl circle. The execution is in the flat, linear Romanesque hammered style typical of southern German deniers of the early 13th century. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Louis I of Bavaria — "der Kelheimer" — used coinage aggressively as part of his territorial consolidation in the early thirteenth century, acquiring the Palatinate of the Rhine through inheritance in 1214 and dramatically expanding Wittelsbach influence. His deniers reflect this transitional moment, when Bavarian minting practice was shifting away from the broad, thin bracteate tradition dominant in the northeast toward the thicker penny fabric more common in southern German territories. The Em Reg #207 classification places this squarely within Regensburg's monetary orbit.