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Denier / Rappen / Pfennig - Ferdinand II of Tyrol
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Upper Alsace (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1584-1595 |
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| Value | 1 Denier or Rappen (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a shield bearing the arms of Upper Alsace: a diagonal bend sinister charged with a row of pellets (bezants), flanked in the upper dexter and lower sinister cantons by stylized eagles or heraldic charges. The shield is enclosed within a plain inner circle, itself surrounded by a broad outer border composed of a continuous row of raised beads (pearl border). No legend is present; the design is entirely heraldic in character, consistent with the small hammered billon coinage of the late sixteenth-century Habsburg administration of Upper Alsace. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this small hammered billon piece is uniface or bears only a plain, featureless field resulting from the striking process, as is typical of deniers and rappen of this type and period. No legend, device, or secondary design element is present, and the surface retains the irregular texture characteristic of hammered coinage struck on a hand-cut flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (1584-1595) |
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