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2½ Stuivers "Braspenning" - Frederick of Baden
| Issuer | Bishopric of Utrecht (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1498-1512 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the arms of the Bishopric of Utrecht and the House of Baden, each shield tilted and leaning toward one another beneath an ornate tournament helmet, the whole enclosed within a beaded or reeded inner circle. The composition is arranged in a heraldic display typical of late medieval ecclesiastical coinage. A circumferential legend in Gothic uncial script encircles the design, reading MONE' FREDERICI EPI TRAIECTENSIS, identifying the issuer as Frederick, Bishop of Utrecht. The overall style reflects the hammered silver coinage tradition of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century Low Countries. |
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| Obverse lettering | mOnE' ⋆ FREDERICI ⋆ EPI⋆ TRAIECTEnSIS |
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Frederick of Baden held the bishopric of Utrecht under near-constant political siege — his tenure was defined less by ecclesiastical administration than by his entanglement in the dynastic conflicts between the Habsburgs and the Guelders faction under Charles of Egmond. The braspenning denomination itself was a Low Countries workhorse, circulating alongside Burgundian issues in a monetary environment where ecclesiastical and secular coinages traded interchangeably in daily commerce.
Utrecht's mint rights, jealously maintained by the bishops despite repeated imperial pressure to consolidate Low Countries coinage, kept issues like this one flowing even as Frederick's political position deteriorated through the first decade of the sixteenth century.