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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Tiengen, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1378-1413 |
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| Weight | 0.31 g |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided bracteate struck on a thin, irregularly clipped silver flan with a squared tendency. Central design features a bearded male bust facing front, wearing a pointed conical hat or helm, rendered in low relief in the characteristic south German bracteate style. Flanking the bust to the left and right are fragmentary Latin letterings reading T, E, and V, likely abbreviating the toponym TIENGEN, disposed in the field. A beaded inner circle encloses the central effigy, with the flan edges showing typical irregular hammer-struck clipping. The overall style is consistent with late 14th- to early 15th-century Upper Rhenish minor coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | T E V |
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Tiengen, a small lordship on the upper Rhine near the Swiss border, produced bracteate-style pfennigs during this period under the authority of the Counts of Sulz, who held the territory through much of the late fourteenth century. These thin, fragile silver pieces were never intended for long-term survival — bracteate coinage of this weight was routinely called in and reminted, often annually, as a form of municipal taxation known as Renovatio monetae.