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Jager - County of East Friesland
| Issuer | County of East Friesland |
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| Year | 1508 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central device consists of a floriated triple cross with elaborate foliate terminal endings, intersecting a double circular legend band. The cross arms divide the inner field into four quarters, each adorned with Gothic floral or trefoil motifs consistent with late medieval North German minting traditions. Two concentric legend bands in Gothic uncial lettering encircle the central cross design, the inscription recording the year of issue and a pious invocation. The overall composition reflects the hammered technique typical of early sixteenth-century regional German coinage. |
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East Friesland's minting rights were a persistent source of friction with the Holy Roman Empire throughout the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, and the county's coinage of this period reflects the ambitions of Count Edzard I, who consolidated territorial control after defeating the rival Cirksena factions. The Jäger — named for the hunter imagery associated with the denomination — was a regional issue circulating primarily within the Emden trade network.
Kappelhoff 112 is among the documented varieties for this type; Emden's mint activity in 1508 falls within a stretch of intensive local silver coinage before Imperial pressure eventually curtailed independent county minting.