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Light Denier - Frederick II and successors Eger mint
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1220-1300 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A four-towered city gate rendered schematically in the field, with a bust or head depicted below the central gateway arch, the whole design enclosed within a roughly circular beaded border. The architectural motif, representing the fortified gate of Eger (Cheb), is characteristic of the local coinage of the Staufen period and is struck in low relief with the irregular outline typical of hammered pfennigs. |
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| Mint | Eger (Cheb) Mint |
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Eger — modern Cheb in the Czech Republic — was a Hohenstaufen imperial residence, and Frederick II granted it significant minting rights as part of his broader strategy of consolidating loyalties through economic privilege. The deniers struck here circulated primarily in Bohemia and the upper Rhine corridor, operating in an awkward monetary space between German and Bohemian currency zones. After Frederick's death in 1250, output continued under his successors without consistent authority, which accounts for the wide typological variation Haskova documents within this single catalog number.