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1 Plak
| Issuer | Deventer, Kampen, Zwolle, Imperial Cities of |
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| Year | 1556 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A cross pattée occupies the central field, with the arms of Deventer positioned at the crossing. The legend is divided into four segments by the arms of the cross, reading continuously around the coin. The date '56' appears within one quarter of the cross, denoting the year 1556. A floral ornament separates the abbreviated legend segments, and the beaded border frames the entire design. The engraving is characteristic of hammered copper municipal coinage of the mid-sixteenth-century IJssel cities. |
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| Mintage | 1556 |
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The joint coinage of Deventer, Kampen, and Zwolle — the IJssel cities — was a pragmatic response to chronic small-change shortages in the Low Countries. These three Overijssel cities held imperial city status under Charles V and periodically exercised their minting rights in concert rather than individually. The 1556 date places this piece in the final years of Charles V's reign before his abdication.
Copper plakken from this alliance are notoriously difficult to attribute without the CNM reference to hand — the three cities used sufficiently similar iconographic conventions that worn examples have historically been miscatalogued.