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Light Denier - Anonymous Eger
| Issuer | City of Eger |
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| Year | 1266-1300 |
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| Weight | 0.72 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a stylized eagle or heraldic bird displayed facing, rendered in a simplified, archaic style consistent with anonymous civic coinage of the late 13th century. The bird is enclosed within a beaded or toothed inner circle, outside of which runs a wreath or rope-like border forming an outer ring. The design is executed in low to medium relief typical of hammered silver deniers, with no surrounding inscription on the reverse. |
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| Mintage | ND (1266-1300) |
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Eger — modern Cheb in the Czech Republic — occupied a peculiar constitutional position in the late thirteenth century: nominally part of the Bohemian crown lands yet administered as an imperial pledge territory, giving its municipal authorities an unusual degree of autonomy in monetary matters. These anonymous deniers reflect that ambiguity directly, issued under civic rather than episcopal or royal authority at a moment when the city's status was genuinely contested between the Přemyslid and Habsburg spheres.
Haskova's cataloguing of this type remains the primary reference; the series is poorly represented in major collections outside Central Europe.