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| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1462-1499 |
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| Value | 1 Plappart = 6 Rappen (1⁄40) |
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| Reverse lettering | AVE·MARI / A·GRACI`·P` |
| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Basel's plappart issues of this period reflect the city's position as a major commercial hub on the Rhine, where a reliable medium-weight silver denomination was essential for trade settling between the Italian merchant networks moving north and the German markets moving south. The Council of Basel had concluded in 1449, but the city retained the financial infrastructure — and the minting ambition — that the council's decades-long presence had built.
HMZ 2#53c falls within a roughly four-decade emission window, making precise dating within the series dependent on die study rather than documentary records alone.