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½ Stuiver - David of Burgundy
| Issuer | Bishopric of Utrecht (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1490 |
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| Value | ½ Stuiver (1) |
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| Obverse description | Quartered shield of arms within a beaded inner circle, the quarters displaying the combined arms of Burgundy and the Bishopric of Utrecht. The upper-left and lower-right quarters bear the Burgundian arms (quarterly France ancient and Brabant), while the upper-right and lower-left quarters display the Utrecht episcopal arms featuring a cross. The shield is rendered in the late Gothic heraldic style typical of the period, occupying the central field. The circumscribed legend in uncial Gothic lettering reads: DAVID DE BVRGONDIE EPIS TRA, identifying the issuer as David of Burgundy, Bishop of Utrecht. |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ DAVID ⋆ DE ⋆ BVRGOnDIE ⋆ EPIS ⋆ TRA |
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David of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht from 1456 to 1496, was an illegitimate son of Philip the Good and spent much of his episcopate locked in conflict with the city of Utrecht itself — a prolonged struggle that ended only after Habsburg intervention forced a settlement in 1483. His coinage reflects that complicated authority: the Bishopric retained its own mint rights even as Burgundian and later Habsburg influence tightened around the Low Countries.
The Delm. 875 reference places this among a loosely attributed cluster of small silver issues whose die relationships remain incompletely documented. The "KM# unclear" designation is honest — Low Countries ecclesiastical coinage of this period resists clean catalog assignment.