1 Pfennig

The Abbey of Lindau, an imperial convent on its island in the Bodensee, held minting rights as a direct vassal of the Holy Roman Emperor — a privilege that made even its smallest silver issues an assertion of jurisdictional independence from the surrounding County of Montfort. These bracteate-style pfennigs were struck across a forty-year window when the abbey's political footing was under sustained pressure from regional secular lords attempting to absorb its territories.

The extreme thinness of the flan accounts for most surviving examples showing stress fractures along the edges.