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1 Großpfennig - Rudolf von Habsburg
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1273-1291 |
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| Currency | Denier (843-1385) |
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| Obverse description | Facing enthroned figure of the king in majesty, crowned and robed, holding an upright sword in the right hand and an imperial orb in the left. The effigy is rendered in a schematic, archaic style typical of late 13th-century German hammered coinage. A beaded or cable inner border frames the central device, with a partial Latin legend distributed around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rudolf I's election in 1273 ended the Interregnum — a two-decade vacancy in the imperial throne during which central authority had collapsed so thoroughly that minting rights fragmented across hundreds of local lords, bishops, and free cities. Rudolf spent much of his reign clawing back those rights, though the Großpfennig denominations issued under his authority reflect how piecemeal that effort remained. Menadier 73 is attributed to the Rhine region, where competing ecclesiastical mints made consistent imperial coinage nearly impossible to enforce.