Bracteate - Early medieval bracteates

A bracteate (from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold coin produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age, but the name is also used for later produced coins of silver produced in Central Europe during the early Middle Ages. Bracteate - Gold bracteates from the migration period. Gold bracteates commonly denominate a certain type of jewellery, made mainly in the fifth to seventh century AD, represented by some spe ...

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Silver bracteates are different from the migration period bracteates and were the main type of coin minted in German-speaking areas, with the exception of the Rhineland, beginning at around 1130 in Saxony and Thuringia and were taken out of circulation at about 1520. In some cantons of Switzerland, bracteate-like rappen, heller, and angster were produced during the 18th century. Mideval silver bracteates may be large, but most a ...

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Bracteate, Bracteate - Gold bracteates from the migration period, Bracteate - Typology, Bracteate - Corpus, Bracteate - Early medieval bracteates, Bracteate - Sources

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Gold bracteates commonly denominate a certain type of jewellery, made mainly in the fifth to seventh century AD, represented by some spectacular gold specimens. Pierced or fitted with an eye, most were intended to be worn suspended by a string around the neck, supposedly as an amulet. The bracteates are believed to have started as one-sided copies of Roman coins but soon developed into jewelry. The motifs are commonly connected to Norse mythology and are believed to be Norse pagan icons for divination and for this reason the bracteate ...

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Bracteate, Bracteate - Gold bracteates from the migration period, Bracteate - Typology, Bracteate - Corpus, Bracteate - Early medieval bracteates, Bracteate - Sources

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