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Denier Bracteate - Philip Christopher of Sötern
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1624-1633 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | T |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip Christopher von Sötern was elected Archbishop of Trier in 1623, immediately inheriting a territory caught between Spanish and French imperial ambitions during the Thirty Years' War. He would eventually place Trier under French protection in 1632 — a decision that prompted the Spanish to arrest him in 1635, beginning a captivity that lasted nearly a decade. These bracteate deniers, struck from a single die through a thin silver flan, were produced across the most turbulent years of his tenure before that arrest ended regular minting under his authority.