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1 Pfennig - Albert of Wertheim
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1407-1421 |
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| Weight | 0.45 g |
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| Obverse description | Hammered bracteate-style design featuring the combined heraldic shield of Bamberg and Wertheim, suspended in the field. A cross appears at the top of the design, serving as a dividing or suspending element. The letter N is visible in the lower field, likely serving as a mint or issuer mark. The die work is characteristic of early fifteenth-century German ecclesiastical coinage, with a rough, irregular flan typical of hand-struck pfennigs of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | N |
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Albert of Wertheim served as Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1398 until his death in 1421, a tenure marked by chronic fiscal friction with the Burghers of Bamberg and ongoing disputes with the Hohenzollern margraves over territorial rights in Franconia. Small silver pfennigs of this type circulated within a tightly bounded regional economy, their acceptance enforced by episcopal monetary authority rather than any broader imperial mandate. Krug Bam#128 is among the thinner-documented Bamberg bracteate-adjacent types, and attribution to specific years within the 1407–1421 window generally rests on die study rather than documentary evidence.