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Denier - Otto II of Lippe
| Issuer | Bishopric of Münster |
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| Year | 1248-1259 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust of Saint Paul depicted in a schematic Romanesque style, with a pronounced beard rendered in decorative curvilinear lines and a nimbus or beaded border framing the head; the bust is centrally placed within the coin field, surrounded by a circular legend. The artistic treatment is characteristic of mid-13th-century Westphalian bracteate-related coinage. |
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Otto II of Lippe served as Bishop of Münster from 1247 until his death in 1259, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the city's burghers over municipal autonomy. This denier belongs to a period when episcopal minting rights in Westphalia were both economically essential and politically contested — the Bishop's control over local coinage was one of the few levers of authority the see could exercise directly against an increasingly assertive merchant class.
The Ilisch reference places this firmly within the documented episcopal sequence for Münster, a catalog that has substantially revised earlier Bonhomme attributions for this reign.