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Bracteate at AllExperts (673 words) |
 | Several bracteates also feature runic alphabet inscriptions (a total of 133 inscriptions on bracteates are known, amounting to more than a third of the entire Elder Futhark corpus). |
| The study of migration period bracteates are considered an interdisciplinary field of Germanic art, Norse art, numismatics, archaeology, iconography, Norse mythology and runology. |
| 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. |
| Vadstena bracteate - Open Encyclopedia (200 words) |
| The Vadstena bracteate (or rather bracteates since there are two of them) is a gold C-bracteate found in the earth at Vadstena in 1774. |
| The bracteate is believed to have been minted at the end of the 6th century. |
| In the middle of the bracteate is a four-legged animal with a man's head above it, and in front of this a bird separated from the other image by a line. |
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