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Bracteat
| Issuer | Utrecht, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1479-1488 |
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| Currency | Groot (1024-1528) |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided bracteate type struck in copper. A single-headed eagle is depicted facing right, rendered in a schematic medieval style with a compact body and wings raised upward; the left wing displays three feathers and the right wing two feathers. A small heraldic shield, serving as a coat of arms, is positioned to the left of the tail. The flan is thin and irregularly shaped, as is characteristic of late medieval Low Countries bracteates, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Utrecht's episcopal bracteates of this period are curiosities in the broader Low Countries minting tradition — thin, single-die struck pieces that were already an anachronism by the late fifteenth century, when most minting authorities had long moved toward thicker, double-sided coinage. Their continued production under the Bishopric likely reflects local small-denomination convention rather than any administrative innovation. The copper composition places this outside the silver bracteate tradition entirely.