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1/2 Groschen - Anonymous Neisse
| Issuer | Bishopric of Breslau |
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| Year | 1292-1301 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Facing nimbate head of St. John the Baptist rendered in crude medieval style, set within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding border is composed of alternating quatrefoils and crosses arranged in a ring, framing the central device. The nimbus is indicated by a circular halo enclosing the face, with punched pellet decoration filling the field. The overall design reflects the anonymous episcopal coinage of Neisse in a bold, schematic style typical of late 13th-century Silesian hammered bracteate-influenced issues. |
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| Reverse description | A bishop's mitre depicted in profile occupies the center of the coin, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The mitre is rendered schematically with punched pellet ornamentation filling the body of the device, consistent with the crude engraving style of anonymous Silesian episcopal coinage of this period. A border of small stars surrounds the inner circle, forming the outer decorative ring. The composition is concentric and symmetrical, reflecting the emblematic episcopal symbolism associated with the Bishopric of Breslau's Neisse mint. |
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The Bishopric of Breslau held temporal as well as ecclesiastical authority over the Neisse district from the mid-thirteenth century, and the anonymous coinages struck there reflect a deliberate policy of episcopal mints asserting local monetary control during a period when Silesian duchies were fragmenting rapidly under Piast inheritance divisions. The absence of a named issuer on this type was not oversight — anonymous episcopal issues were a recognized convention that sidestepped political friction with competing secular claimants.
Kop. 6713 places this squarely within the transitional bracket before Bishop Johann I's more attributable issues regularized the Neisse output around 1301.