Obverse: On a brick arch between two towers sits the veiled abbess with a lily in her right hand, her left hand raised in blessing, at her feet the portraits of two canonesses; below a lily. In the field an arrowhead-type cross and three ringlets.
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Title: Medieval Coin (Quedlinburg: Beatrix II)
Creator: Beatrix II (1138-1172), abbess
Date Created: 1138/1160
Location: Quedlinburg (Germany)
Physical Dimensions: diameter 31mm, weight 0.88g
Type: Medieval Bracteate, Coin (obverse)
Rights: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen