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11/2 Schilling - Kuno II of Falkenstein
| Issuer | Trier, Archbishopric of |
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| Year | 1372-1375 |
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| Reference(s) | Noss Be#167 |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central motif comprising the arms of the Archbishopric of Trier — a cross quarterly — displayed on a shield set within a four-lobed Gothic quatrefoil frame with pointed cusps, rendered in a crosshatched or latticed style. The shield is surrounded by the elaborate cusped foil border typical of Rhenish ecclesiastical coinage of the late 14th century. The outer circular legend, reading PER GAL ARCAN MONETA TREVERE, is inscribed in Gothic uncial script within a beaded border, identifying this as a monetary issue of the Trier archiepiscopal mint. |
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Kuno II von Falkenstein served as Archbishop of Trier from 1362 until his death in 1388, and his tenure coincided with the Archbishopric's increasingly aggressive assertion of territorial coinage rights against competing Rhenish princes. The 1½ Schilling denomination is an awkward fractional value that appears specifically to meet the transactional demands of Rhenish trade in the 1370s, when silver coin shortages along the Rhine drove mints to produce non-standard fractions rather than round denominations.
Noss remains the foundational reference for Trier episcopal coinage, and the Be#167 attribution is among the more precisely documented of Kuno's issues.