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Denier lily/cross, NOMINETV
| Issuer | Demmin, City of |
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| Year | 1300-1500 |
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| Weight | 0.6 g |
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| Obverse description | A prominent fleur-de-lis (lily) occupies the central field, rendered in a stylized Gothic manner characteristic of late medieval German civic coinage. The motif is depicted with three lobes rising from a short stem. A circular legend surrounds the central device, reading MONETA:DEMINE, referencing the city of Demmin. The coin is struck on an irregular flan typical of hammered billon issues of the period. |
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| Reverse description | A plain cross divides the reverse field into four quarters, with a small fleur-de-lis motif appearing in the upper-right canton at approximately the two o'clock position. The cross extends to the inner border of a beaded or rope-like circle. The surrounding legend reads DEVS:IN:NOMINETV, a truncated invocation derived from Psalm 54 ('Deus in nomine tuo'), a formula commonly employed on medieval ecclesiastical and civic coinage. The flan is irregular, consistent with hand-struck billon production. |
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Demmin's civic coinage emerged from the town's position within the Hanseatic commercial network, where local billon issues filled the gap left by the chronic shortage of small-denomination silver in the southern Baltic region. The Dann Po references distinguish at least two die variants of this type, suggesting sustained if modest production across the period.