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Denier
| Issuer | Stargard, City of |
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| Year | 1400-1450 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse description | A griffin passant to the left rendered in a bold, primitive hammered style, its wings raised and body delineated by deeply struck striations. A single pellet appears below the griffin's body in the lower field, serving as a secondary design element typical of late medieval municipal coinage of Pomerania. The overall design fills the irregular flan, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Reverse description | A six-pointed star occupying the full field, formed by two interlaced triangles in the hammered relief tradition. At the center of the star is a small ring enclosing a single pellet, with additional pellets placed within each of the six angles between the star's points. The design is boldly struck but shows characteristic irregularity of the planchet, with no surrounding legend. |
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Stargard, situated in Pomerania, held minting rights as a member of the Wendish monetary union, though by the early fifteenth century that alliance was increasingly strained by competing civic and ducal interests in the region. Small billon issues of this type circulated primarily in local trade, their finenesse so debased by this period that the distinction between billon and copper was largely theoretical.