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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4904569, member: 96898&quot;]That&#039;s a very nice early issue from Magdeburg! I also like your second bracteate&nbsp; (Berger 1534). Fortunately, the Welf takeover after Philip&#039;s assassination lasted merely four years...</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning the wooden dies, I have not heard of this theory, but that doesn&#039;t mean too much. The few extant medieval bracteate obverse dies I know of are all made from iron or other hard metals. The reverse &quot;die&quot; used for many bracteates, though, probably was a sort of wooden pestle padded with leather or some other soft material.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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