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1/4 Stuiver
| Issuer | City of Nijmegen (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1489 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse description | Double-headed eagle displayed at center, with both heads turned outward, rendered in a late medieval Gothic style characteristic of civic coinage. The eagle's wings are spread and detailed with feather striations, and its body faces forward within a beaded inner circle. The encircling legend in uncial Latin lettering reads around the periphery, identifying the coin as new money of Nijmegen. The overall design is typical of Imperial civic arms adapted for municipal coinage of the Lower Rhine region. |
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| Reverse description | A long cross pattée extends to the beaded inner circle, dividing the reverse field into four quadrants. At the center of the cross, a quatrefoil motif encloses a prominent raised dot, serving as a decorative boss. The surrounding legend, rendered in uncial Latin script, occupies the space between the inner and outer circles, recording the date in Roman numerals with the characteristic late-medieval use of a superscript numeral '9' as an abbreviation for '-em' to denote 1489. The overall composition is austere and functional, consistent with hammered billon coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ANNO · DNI` × MCCCC × LXXX9 (Translation: The year of the Lord 1489) |
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