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Denier
| Issuer | Stettin, City of |
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| Year | 1300-1399 |
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| Weight | 0.32 g |
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| Reverse description | A crested helmet surmounted by a small crown, set beneath a rounded arch formed by a three-towered castle or city gate, rendered in schematic medieval style. The architectural motif, referencing the fortifications of Stettin, occupies the full field of the flan. The design is executed in low relief consistent with hammered bracteate-influenced coinage of the Pomeranian region. No inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Stettin's civic coinage rights in the fourteenth century were exercised under persistent tension with the Pomeranian dukes, who periodically contested the city's minting privileges. This denier, weighing barely a third of a gram, represents the thin end of the medieval silver coinage spectrum — a denomination that survived largely because small transactions had no viable substitute in the Baltic trade economy of the period.