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Bracteat
| Issuer | Bishopric of Utrecht |
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| Year | 1500-1523 |
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| Value | Bracteat = 1/8e plak = 1⁄64e Stichtste Stuiver = 1⁄32e |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided bracteate type struck on a thin, irregularly-shaped copper flan. A single-headed eagle displayed facing right with a smooth, uncrested head occupies the central field, its wings spread in heraldic fashion. The eagle holds a shield bearing the arms of the Bishopric of Utrecht. The design is executed in low relief characteristic of hammered bracteate coinage of the early sixteenth-century Low Countries, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Utrecht's bracteate coinage of this period falls under the episcopate of Frederik van Baden and his successor Philip of Burgundy, a stretch marked by persistent tension between the bishop's temporal authority and the encroaching power of the Habsburgs. Copper bracteates at this weight were fiduciary tokens rather than intrinsically valued currency — the diocese issuing them on authority alone.
Van der Chijs catalog reference 4#8 places this among the lesser-documented Utrecht ecclesiastical issues, where die survival is poor and attribution sometimes rests on provenance alone.