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Denier - Frederick II and successors Eger mint
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1220-1300 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Eger Mint |
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Frederick II granted Eger (now Cheb, in the Czech Republic) imperial city status in 1277, but the mint had been operating under royal and then imperial authority well before that. The city's position on the Bohemian border made it a commercial flashpoint, and these deniers circulated heavily into Bohemian markets where they competed directly with Prague groschen issues. The relatively debased silver content — low for imperial coinage of the period — reflects successive debasements carried out by Frederick's successors as imperial authority over the Eger mint weakened through the latter half of the thirteenth century.