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1 Pfennig - Albert of Wertheim
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1407-1421 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Nuremberg |
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Albert of Wertheim held the see of Bamberg from 1398 until his death in 1421, a tenure marked by persistent friction with the Hohenzollern burgraves of Nuremberg over territorial jurisdiction in Franconia. These small silver pfennigs circulated within a diocese that functioned as a fully sovereign ecclesiastical prince — the Bishop of Bamberg answered to the Emperor, not to any intervening secular lord. At 0.2 g, the flan was punched from sheet silver, a production method common to Franconian bracteate-tradition mints that persisted well into the fifteenth century.