Denier - Louis I

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.