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1 Pfennig - Berthold of Leiningen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1258-1285 |
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| Weight | 0.41 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a bishop in low relief, depicted frontally with stylized facial features including prominent eyes. The figure wears episcopal vestments and holds a crozier in one hand and a vexillum (flag) in the other. The design is rendered in the crude but characterful Romanesque style typical of 13th-century German bracteate-related pfennig coinage. No legend or border ornament is present; the entire field is occupied by the episcopal effigy. The flan is irregular and slightly buckled, consistent with hammered silver coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Blank uniface reverse, as is characteristic of thin hammered pfennig coinage of this type. The surface shows only the incuse impression of the obverse die, with no intentional design, legend, or decorative element present. |
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Berthold von Leiningen served as Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1257 to 1285, a period when the bishopric maintained substantial territorial and monetary authority in Franconia. These small bracteate-style pfennigs circulated within a tightly regional economy where ecclesiastical mints competed — and occasionally clashed — with neighboring secular powers over striking rights.
Krug Bam#86 is a well-documented type within the Bamberg episcopal series, but surviving specimens at even moderate preservation are scarce given the inherent fragility of thin silver bracteates at this weight class.