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Denier - Henry II/III Bridge
| Issuer | Brabant, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1235-1261 |
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| Currency | Groot (1183-1506) |
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| Reverse description | A bold Brabantine-style cross divides the field into four quarters. In two diagonally opposite quarters, a small dot and a circled dot (annulet with central pellet) are present, while the remaining two quarters each contain a leaf-like or trefoil foliate decoration. The cross arms are plain and well-defined, and the design fills the flan to its irregular edges. No surrounding legend is present, consistent with anonymous bracteate-related issues of the Duchy of Brabant. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
The overlap in attribution between Henry II (d. 1248) and Henry III reflects a genuine scholarly problem: these deniers are nearly impossible to assign by reign on physical evidence alone, and the date range straddles both. Witte's split references — #111 and #116 — acknowledge distinct die groupings rather than a clean dynastic boundary.
Brabant's mid-thirteenth century coinage was under constant pressure from neighboring Flemish and Lotharingian issues competing for regional trade circulation. The low weight standard here is not degradation — it was deliberate, aligning Brabantine small change with the lighter penny conventions then spreading through the Low Countries.