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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3110373, member: 74834&quot;]But there’s a big difference between German 13th century bracteates and these 6th century jewels. German bracteates were coins, multiplied by a form that was pressed into a sheet of thin silver. By the thousands they were given out by bishops, dukes and other lords as money to be used in their High Medieval realms. </p><p>Show me a gold Danish bracteate of this period, seven centuries earlier, that is known in multiples. </p><p>Bracteate just points to a metal technique: a little (round) sheet of precious metal, worked on one side only. By the way, I’m still curious about the diameter and weight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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