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| Issuer | Freiburg, City of |
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| Year | 1498 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is characteristic of bracteate coinage, which is struck on a single thin flan producing an incuse mirror impression on the reverse side. |
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| Mintage | 1498: ND (1498) |
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Freiburg im Breisgau struck its own petty coinage under privileges extended by the Habsburgs, who had acquired the city in 1368. By 1498, Maximilian I was consolidating imperial monetary policy through the Reichsmünzordnung, a reform effort that would eventually curtail the minting rights of smaller civic authorities — making late 15th-century issues like this one products of a system already under institutional pressure.
The Berstett and Wüthrich references place this firmly within the documented Freiburg civic series, though surviving examples in any condition are infrequently offered.