LIEGE, Principauté brûlé de 12 sols Liege Prince Bishopric Brule 12 Sols Gigot 1583 Ernest of Bavaria Dengis 958 VF

Prince Bishopric of Liege, brûlé of 12 sols, also called a gigot or a mite, 1583, Liege mint, Ernest of Bavaria, copper. The brûlé of 12 sols is a half aidant.

Obverse: bearded bust right with a Spanish ruff. Legend ERNEST. BA. DVX. EP. LE. DVX. B. CO. LOS. The legend names Ernest as Duke of Bavaria, Bishop of Liege, Duke of Bouillon and Count of Looz.

Reverse: the quartered arms of Bavaria-Palatinate under a ducal cap, a rosette on either side, the value XII below. Legend AVDIATVR. ALTERA. PARS 1583, meaning let the other side be heard as well.

References: Dengis 958, de Chestret 554.

Ernest of Bavaria was appointed prince bishop of Liege by Pope Gregory XIII on 18 June 1581. The edict of 6 August 1582 ordered this brûlé to be struck; the type is dated 1583 to 1585 and an undated series exists as well. In 1583, the year of this coin, he also became Archbishop and Elector of Cologne. He applied the Peace of Augsburg of 1555 strictly and acted harshly against the Protestants. Four mints of the principality struck coin under his rule: Bouillon, Hasselt, Liege and Maaseik. The perron, the column that is the symbol of the city of Liege, is the mint mark of the Liege workshop. He tried to bring the Liege and the Brabant currencies into line, one Brabant florin counting as four Liege florins. On 27 June 1588 he devalued all copper pieces by a third, and on 17 November 1601 he forbade the circulation of copper coins that did not carry his effigy. He had a similar piece struck in 1585 and 1586 for the abbey principality of Stavelot-Malmedy as well.

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