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1 Pfennig - Burkhard of Ellerbach
| Issuer | Bishopric of Augsburg |
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| Year | 1373-1404 |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a bishop in full frontal view, wearing a mitre, with a crozier (pastoral staff) depicted to the left and the city arms pine cone (Augsburg city symbol) to the right of the head. The effigy is rendered in a crude, stylized manner typical of late medieval hammered bracteate-style pfennigs. No legend present. |
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| Mintage | ND (1373-1404) |
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Burkhard of Ellerbach served as Bishop of Augsburg from 1373 to 1404, a tenure defined largely by his efforts to reassert episcopal authority over a diocese that had spent decades hemorrhaging political influence to the Swabian city-league towns. These small silver pfennigs were issued under that pressure — minor coinage, but coinage nonetheless, and the right to strike it was one of the few regalian privileges the bishops still held with any reliability in this period.