Bracteate identification help

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I found this online and it piqued my interest, it’s 15mm and weighs 0.62 grams. the seller states it’s most likely from around Germany, Austria and Poland. Was wondering if I could get any help identifying it and possibly adding to my collection.

 

Searching on jelenia (for głowa jelenia or łeb jelenia)  I found these:  

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6306390

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7056444 .

 

Style is similar, but the weight is much lower.  

I can find some other heavy bracteates, so maybe this design was also struck at a double weight?

I found the weight a bit strange too, not sure if it’s common for bracteates to have this kind of weight. I‘ll try to do more re on it, thank you!

I also found it interesting that one auction house calls it Silesian and the other Pomeranian (and to me these two examples are nearly identical),  so this could be why the seller does not attribute it in a more precise way. 

I’ve noticed that designs are somewhat copied/ identical in differing areas, the seller also mentioned that “hohlpfennigs from Thuringia that depict a deer head in a similar style to this one” how I’m not able to find the source but there’s a similar German coin to this as well: N#141083

not particularly the same as this design but very similar

Stolberg is another place known for deer on their coins, and this bracteate is also close: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3387696  

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