Watch List notes:

GERMANY, Merseburg (Bistum). Johannes. 1151-1170. AR Bracteate (35mm, 0.99 g). St. Lawrence, facing slightly right and holding palm frond in right hand, and Bishop Johannes, facing slightly left, holding crozier in right hand and gospel in left; below, arch reading IOHANNЄS • ЄPISCOPVS; below arch, the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence: two torturers prodding St. Lawrence, lying left on slab, quatrefoils flanking / Incuse of obverse. Gotha 387 (this coin); Kestner 2040-1; Bonhoff 918; Löbbecke 432. Wonderful cabinet toning. Choice EF. Very rare in this size.


From the Dr. William J. Conte Collection of Bracteates. Ex Dr. Helmut Hahn Collection (Künker 301, 1 February 2018), lot 560; Dr. Gustav Hoecke Collection (Münz Zentrum 73, 22 April 1992), lot 3043; 1900 Gotha Find, 387.