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1 Pfennig - Bernard I
| Issuer | Baden |
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| Year | 1409-1431 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse lettering | BP |
| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse design, as is characteristic of thin hammered pfennig coinage of this period, showing the Baden diagonal bend shield and pellet border in relief reverse impression. The flan edges are irregular, consistent with hand-cut medieval planchets. Surface details are softly struck, typical of bracteate-style production of the early fifteenth century. |
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Bernard I of Baden ruled the Margraviate during a period when the fragmentation of coinage rights across the Upper Rhine made small silver pfennigs like this one essential instruments of local exchange — and an assertion of territorial authority over subjects who might otherwise be using coins from Basel, Freiburg, or any number of competing ecclesiastical mints. The Breisgau region was monetarily contested territory throughout the early fifteenth century.
The Wielandt Breis. #30b classification places this among a well-documented but physically scarce class of bracteate-influenced pfennigs that saw heavy use and minimal hoarding.