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Bracteat
| Issuer | Utrecht, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1479-1488 |
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| Weight | 0.42 g |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate, the reverse presents an incuse mirror image of the obverse design, showing the single-headed eagle with cross-hatched wing decoration impressed into the thin copper flan. No separate reverse design or legend is present, which is characteristic of this bracteate coin type. |
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| Mintage | ND (1479-1488) |
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The Bishopric of Utrecht's copper bracteates of this period occupy an awkward position in monetary history — thin, fragile, and low-value, they were produced as petty coinage during the long episcopate of David of Burgundy, an illegitimate son of Philip the Good who ruled Utrecht from 1456 until his death in 1496. David's tenure was defined by persistent conflict with the city's secular factions and intermittent warfare, conditions that kept demand for small-denomination copper alive even as silver coinage grew scarce in the regional economy.