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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3279404, member: 96898&quot;]That&#039;s a lovely bracteate you got for Christmas!</p><p><br /></p><p>The bishop&#039;s head on this late medieval bracteate from Basel always reminds me of your Dutch Sinterklaas:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]866735[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Bishop Johann II. Senn von Münsingen, Prince-Bishopric of Basel, Angster (&quot;vierzipfliger Pfennig&quot;), 1335–1365 AD. Obv: head of a bishop wearing mitre (three pellets at each side) left, between B-A, ring above. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 17–20mm, 0.33g. Ref: Wielandt: Basler Münzprägung (1971), no. 117; HMZ 255; Catalogue Wüthrich, no 31; Berger: Brakteaten (1993/6), no. 2415–1416.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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