Catalog
1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Free Imperial City of Nuremberg (German States) |
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| Year | 1382-1395 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄252) |
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| Obverse description | The Nuremberg civic arms depicted centrally in the field, rendered in a bold, stylised manner characteristic of late 14th-century hammered bracteate-influenced coinage. The shield displays the divided arms of the imperial city, with the characteristic quartered or halved arrangement of the Nuremberg municipal device. The design is executed in high relief against a flat, unadorned field, with no surrounding legend. The flan is irregular in outline, as is typical of hand-struck pfennigs of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1382-1395) |
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Nuremberg's pfennigs of this period were struck under the city's expanding autonomy following Emperor Charles IV's 1356 Golden Bull, which effectively locked in the city's status as a privileged imperial site. The city mint operated with considerable independence by the 1380s, producing bracteate-style pfennigs that circulated primarily within the city's immediate trade networks rather than across broader regional routes.
The Erlanger 41/100 references place this among the documented Nuremberg hälbling and pfennig series catalogued from the municipal collection — thin, fragile strikes prone to cracking at the flan edges, which accounts for the difficulty in finding undamaged survivors today.