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Denier Bracteate - Jakob III of Eltz
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1570-1579 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄384) |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, as is typical of bracteate coinage, where the obverse design is impressed through the thin silver flan leaving only an incuse mirror image on the reverse side with no intentional design or inscription. |
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| Mintage | 1570 - (15)70 - 1574 - (15)74 - 1578 - (15)78 - 1579 - (15)79 - |
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Jakob III von Eltz served as Archbishop of Trier from 1567 to 1581, a tenure defined largely by the pressures of the Counter-Reformation and the financial strains of maintaining ecclesiastical authority along the middle Rhine. Bracteates of this type — thin single-sided silver pieces — survived in the Trier region well past their widespread abandonment elsewhere in the Holy Roman Empire, a conservative minting practice rooted in the archbishopric's commercial isolation from broader imperial monetary reforms. MB#73 is among the scarcer attributable issues of his episcopate.