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1/2 Bugne / 2 Denier
| Issuer | Metz, City of |
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| Year | 1394-1500 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Metz maintained an unusual degree of monetary autonomy within the Holy Roman Empire throughout the fifteenth century, issuing its own billon fractional coinage well into a period when many comparable Free Cities had ceded minting rights or adopted regional standards. The bugne — a denomination peculiar to the Metz system — circulated alongside episcopal issues from the same city, creating a dual-authority monetary environment that confused contemporaries and continues to complicate attribution today.
Flon's corpus remains the essential reference, with this type catalogued under a sequence reflecting production across more than a century of essentially unchanged municipal policy.