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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 8334631, member: 96898&quot;]Interesting hoard – I hope that it will be properly evaluated. Concerning the article, I doubt the thesis that a general shortage of silver ore was responsible for introducing bracteates. Scholarship generally assumes that the need for light, distinctive, and easy-to-produce regional coins played the main.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pictures of the hoard are not too clear, but I see coins from Brandenburg, many Silesian types, as well as what might be &quot;Maurice pennies&quot; from Magdeburg. This is interesting in itself, considering that bracteates are typically understood to have been local coinage that usually circulated in and around the places they were struck at.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one of my own Magdeburg bracteates:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477625[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Archbishopric of Magdeburg, bracteate penny, ca. ca. 1270–1280. Obv:&nbsp; St. Maurice, wearing armour, standing facing, holding lance and lance flag; ringlets r. and l.. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 20mm, 0.73g. Ref: Berger 1603–1605; Slg. Bonhoff 719.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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