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1/2 Batzen
| Issuer | Regensburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1510-1516 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Half-length frontal bust of Saint Wolfgang, Bishop of Regensburg, depicted in episcopal vestments and mitre, holding a crozier in his right hand and a model of a church in his left, symbolising his role as patron and founder. The figure is rendered in the late Gothic style typical of early sixteenth-century Bavarian coinage. A circumferential devotional legend in Gothic characters encircles the bust between the inner beaded circle and the outer rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Regensburg's half Batzen issues of this period fall within the city's brief window of independent silver coinage before Imperial monetary reforms began consolidating regional striking authority. The Batzen denomination itself had emerged from southern German and Swiss minting practice only around 1500, making these early Regensburg pieces among the first generation of that denomination struck in the middle Danube region.