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Denier - Louis II
| Issuer | Brandenburg, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1351-1365 |
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| Diameter | 14 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold foliate or trefoil motif in the upper left quadrant, flanked by curved ornamental elements that may represent stylized wing or scroll forms. Two annulet or pellet devices appear in the lower field on either side of the central design. The composition is arranged symmetrically about a vertical axis within a plain inner border, consistent with the hammered bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage of Margrave Louis II of Brandenburg. The fabric is thin and the flan slightly irregular with a notch at the rim. |
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| Mintage | ND (1351-1365) |
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Louis II ruled Brandenburg during a period when the Wittelsbachs held the margraviate through a legitimacy dispute so tangled it drew papal intervention — his father Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, had controversially awarded himself the territory after the extinction of the Ascanian line. The small silver deniers struck under Louis II reflect the fragmented monetary production of the mid-fourteenth century March, where local ecclesiastical and secular mints operated with considerable independence from any central standard.
The weight of surviving examples varies enough to suggest inconsistent bullion supply rather than deliberate debasement.