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1 Pfennig - Albert Achilles
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Franconia |
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| Year | 1469-1486 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄12) |
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| Obverse description | Angular shield bearing the quartered arms of the House of Hohenzollern (Zollern), surmounted by a crested helm issuing a dog's head crest. Gothic letters A and O are positioned to either side of the shield in the field, serving as initial marks or mintmaster identifiers. The design is executed in the late medieval Germanic hammered tradition, with the heraldic elements rendered in bold, stylized relief typical of 15th-century Franconian coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Albert Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg from 1470, spent much of his reign managing the fractured Hohenzollern inheritance. His 1473 Dispositio Achillea — a binding hereditary law he imposed unilaterally — was specifically designed to prevent the kind of territorial fragmentation that had plagued the family for generations, separating the Electorate of Brandenburg from the Franconian holdings as distinct, non-divisible lines. These small silver pfennigs were struck across both territories during precisely the years he was legislating that separation.
Schr#321 places this type firmly within the Franconian branch issues, distinct from contemporary Brandenburg mint production.