Seal coin
Sealing coin: silver denarius of Cologne Archbishop Philipp von Heinsberg (approx. 1175–1181) embossed on both sides
In contrast to bracteates or hollow pennies, sealing coins are massive, small coins from the Middle Ages with raised embossing on both sides.
The term "sealing coin" is rarely used and describes a coin whose shape corresponds to the everyday understanding of a coin: round, solid and a raised image on both sides. Of importance, the term in which Numismatics exactly where Brakteaten or hollow pennies together with other medieval coinage in Münznominal the denarius or penny - are treated - the sealing coins.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich von Schrötter : Dictionary of coinage. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1930, keywords seal coins (p. 138), denarius (p. 130), hollow pennies (p. 269).