Catalog
1 Penning - Egbert II Stavoren
| Issuer | Stavoren Mint |
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| Year | 1068-1090 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ V ECBERTVSV |
| Reverse description | Schematic double-towered gate or church facade rendered in the Romanesque style, composed of two arch-topped towers with vertical pillar shafts below, separated by a central column, all formed by incised lines and pellet ornaments. A patriarchal or processional cross surmounts the structure at the top of the field, with rows of pellets arranged in a semicircular pattern above the gate motif suggesting a decorative arcade or arcade frieze. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin legend ✠ VSTAVERONV disposed around the periphery between the beaded border and the irregular hammered rim. |
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Egbert II, Count of Brunswick, held mint rights at Stavoren under circumstances that remain contested — the Frisian coastal town was commercially active enough to warrant its own coinage, but political control over the region shifted repeatedly between imperial, episcopal, and comital authorities throughout the late eleventh century. Issues attributable to Egbert II's period there are rare survivors of a mint whose output was modest and whose coins circulated in a Baltic and North Sea trading zone that was hard on silver.