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Denier - Otto V
| Issuer | Brandenburg, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1285 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of the Margrave, depicted standing and holding a banner or flag in each raised hand, the staffs extending to either side. The figure is rendered in a schematic, medieval style characteristic of Brandenburg bracteate and denier coinage. The effigy is enclosed within a plain inner circle. No legend is present. |
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| Reverse description | A plain Latin cross occupies the center of the field, with a small ring or annulet positioned in each of the upper two quadrants flanking the upright. A heraldic eagle is depicted to the left and right of the cross shaft in the lower quadrants, their wings displayed downward in the angular style typical of Hohenzollern Brandenburg coinage. The design is contained within a plain inner circle. No legend is present. |
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Otto V ruled Brandenburg jointly with his brothers under the Ascanian dynasty's habitual division of territorial authority — a political arrangement that makes attributing specific issues to individual margraves genuinely difficult. The Dann and Bahrfeldt references place this type firmly within his tenure, but the collaborative nature of Ascanian governance means the coin reflects institutional rather than personal authority. Brandenburg's deniers of this period were struck at a sharply declining weight standard as silver content eroded across the late thirteenth century Mark Brandenburg issues.