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2 Groot - John of Verneburg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Utrecht |
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| Year | 1364-1371 |
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| Value | 2 Groot |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Bishop John of Verneburg depicted in high relief at center, wearing a mitre and episcopal vestments, his face shown frontally with stylized beard and hair rendered in the Gothic manner. The bishop's effigy is framed within a beaded inner circle, with decorative foliate or floral elements visible above the mitre. A circular legend in uncial Gothic lettering surrounds the central device, separated from the field by a beaded border. The overall die work is characteristic of mid-14th-century Low Countries ecclesiastical coinage, with bold but somewhat crude engraving typical of hammered silver issues of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John of Verneburg held the see of Utrecht from 1364 to 1371 under circumstances that were anything but ecclesiastical — his appointment was effectively a political imposition by the Duke of Gelderland against the chapter's preferred candidate, a dispute that dragged through papal arbitration for years. The Bishopric of Utrecht in this period functioned as a territorial power with its own mint rights, and coinage was as much an assertion of jurisdictional independence as it was a practical necessity for trade along the Rhine delta routes.
The vdCh 7#11,1 reference places this within Chevalier's Utrecht episcopal series, a cataloging tradition that remains the authoritative framework for Low Countries ecclesiastical coinage of the fourteenth century.