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Denier - Henry of Guelders Huy, Perron
| Issuer | Prince-Bishopric of Liège |
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| Year | 1249 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a bishop in high relief, mitred, depicted in frontal effigy with a crozier held in the right hand and a bible or gospels held in the left. The figure is rendered in the crude, flat style characteristic of medieval episcopal deniers, with pellet or globular decorative elements filling the field. A surrounding legend in Latin frames the episcopal portrait. |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting the Perron of Liège, the emblematic column-monument symbolic of the city's civic liberties, flanked on either side by two back-to-back crescents. The composition is rendered in the simplified, linear style typical of hammered medieval Mosan coinage, with the perron serving as the principal charge within a beaded or dotted border, accompanied by a surrounding Latin legend. |
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| Mintage | 1249: ND (1249) |
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