analyseras samt vilken roll brakteaterna spelade under senmedeltiden.English abstract: The medieval bracteates are the thinnest … coins that have ever been minted. Despite the fragility, the bracteates dominated the coinage system in large parts of … central, eastern and northern Europe for almost 200 years. The purpose of this article is to put the bracteates in a …

.English abstract: In medieval Sweden (1150–1520), similar coin types were minted as in continental Europe: bracteates, two-faced coins …, again bracteates, and örtugs with hohlpfennigs as small change. The purpose of this article is to analyze whether Sweden … also applied the European currency policies that correspond to these types, e.g. coin debasements and periodic recoinage …

fineness, bracteates minting, and small currency areas.The number of circulating coins and the degree of monetization increased …: there were many coin types in each time period, skewed coin hoards with respect to types, low monetization, high silver … recoinage far more difficult to enforce and administrate. Bracteates were thus finally replaced by long-lived, two-faced coins …

methods, a couple of Swedish bracteates from the late 12th century are identified as minted by the archbishop of Uppsala. They …

-known that bracteates were considerably more difficult to counterfeit than two-faced coins. The main reason is that bracteates … been produced in the 18th century and onwards. Compared to original bracteates, modern bracteate forgeries often have: 1 …

English Abstract: In this article, some controversial Swedish medieval bracteates are classified. The analysis is based …

English Abstract: Thousands of different bracteates were minted during the Middle Ages in Central, Eastern and Northern … Europe. Unfortunately, most bracteates are silent, i.e. they lack inscriptions with clues about coin master and mint. This … makes it difficult to classify bracteates. This article presents four different methods that can be used individually or in …