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Brûlé - Corneille de Berghes
| Issuer | Prince-Bishopric of Liège |
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| Year | 1540-1541 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Corneille de Berghes served as Prince-Bishop of Liège from 1538 until his death in 1544, a tenure marked by ongoing friction with the city's guilds and the broader pressures of Reformation-era politics pressing in from every direction. The brûlé — a small copper fractional piece — took its name from the practice of deliberately burning or defacing worn or counterfeit specimens to remove them from circulation, a recurring problem in the copper coinage of the Mosan region throughout the sixteenth century. Dengis 863 is not a common attribution, and surviving pieces in collectible condition are genuinely scarce.