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Denier
| Issuer | Stettin, City of |
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| Year | 1400-1499 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A full-bodied griffin passant to the left, depicted with spread wings, forelegs raised, and tail curling upward, occupying the entirety of the small irregular flan. The beast is rendered in a bold, primitive style typical of hammered Pomeranian municipal issues, with deeply cut relief lines defining the wing feathers and haunches. No surrounding legend or border is present, and the flat field shows natural die flow marks consistent with the hammering technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stettin's medieval deniers occupy an awkward monetary position — issued by a city that spent much of the fifteenth century caught between the competing claims of the Pomeranian dukes and the ambitions of Brandenburg. The city's minting rights were neither uncontested nor continuous, and civic coinage from this period reflects periodic interruptions rather than steady production.
Koppmann's cataloguing of these small silvers remains the standard reference, though die linkage studies have since suggested the actual number of distinct emission periods is higher than early scholarship assumed.