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Plappart
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1425-1499 |
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| Weight | 1.60 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Mint | Mint of Basel |
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Basel's plappart emerged from a period of acute monetary fragmentation across the Upper Rhine, where dozens of competing municipal and episcopal mints produced incompatible silver fractions. The city secured minting rights aggressively through the fifteenth century, and the plappart — a denomination peculiar to the Swiss and Alsatian region — served local market needs that larger imperial coinages couldn't efficiently fill.
The seventy-five year span of this type reflects remarkable denominational stability for a free imperial city navigating the pressures of the Burgundian Wars and shifting trade alliances with the Swiss Confederation, which Basel formally joined in 1501.