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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3372527, member: 87809&quot;]Very, very chipped, so much that I have not measured or weighted it:</p><p><br /></p><p>Holy Roman Empire, Friedrich I, AR Bracteate</p><p>Imperial mint Altenburg, 1152 - 1190</p><p>Ref.: Slg. Löbbecke 697; F. Erfurt 58 var; Gotha 329; Belfort 1173</p><p><br /></p><p>As medieval coin style moved away from past models of the Greeks and Romans to lighter pieces, the Bracteate, a uniface coin, came into being. Invented in Poland, it remained popular until 1350. The name derived from the Latin bractea, thin metal piece. Given their thinness, such fragile coins could not be struck from a set of dies for obverse (&quot;heads&quot;) and reverse (&quot;tails&quot;) images. Instead, the thin silver or gold was hammered over a raised relief so that the image was impressed into the metal.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]894469[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]894468[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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