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¼ Stuber
| Issuer | Duchy of Cleves (Cleves, German States) |
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| Year | 1753-1755 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Central crowned coat of arms displaying a quartered shield with the arms of Cleves, supported on either side by a rampant lion. The royal crown surmounts the shield, which is set above a decorative foliate base. The entire device is contained within a plain inner circle bordered by a fine rope or cable rim. No legend is present on the obverse. |
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| Mint | Cleves Mint |
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Cleves had been a Hohenzollern possession since 1614, but its coinage remained administratively awkward — the duchy sat on the lower Rhine, geographically detached from Brandenburg-Prussia's core territories, and its small-denomination copper issues were struck to satisfy purely local circulation needs that Berlin found barely worth supervising. Frederick II showed little interest in rationalizing Cleves's petty coinage, which is partly why these quarters circulated alongside a tangle of competing regional coppers from Jülich, Berg, and the neighboring ecclesiastical states.