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1 Vierchen
| Issuer | Stargard, City of |
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| Year | 1430 |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a stylized eagle displayed in low relief, rendered in the crude hammered style typical of late medieval Pomeranian bracteate-influenced coinage. The eagle's wings spread upward in a fan-like arrangement of deeply incuse parallel lines, with the body occupying the lower field. The irregular flan edge and uneven surface are characteristic of the hammered technique employed at the Stargard mint circa 1430. No legible legend or inscription is present on this face. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stargard (Pomerania) issued these small bracteate-style pfennigs under municipal authority during a period when Pomeranian towns frequently struck their own low-denomination coinage independent of ducal control. The Vierchen — worth a quarter pfennig — was the smallest monetary unit in regular civic use, and surviving examples are typically found in hoard contexts rather than as isolated finds, suggesting they circulated in bulk and were saved collectively rather than individually lost.