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1 Pfennig - Burkhard of Ellerbach
| Issuer | Bishopric of Augsburg |
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| Year | 1373-1424 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central device consisting of a bold letter H in relief, with an arrowhead or pointed wedge-shaped mintmaster's mark suspended from and integrated into the crossbar of the H, pointing downward into the lower field. The design is rendered in a stark, schematic style typical of late 14th- to early 15th-century south German bracteate-influenced pfennigs. No legend or border inscription is present; the plain field surrounds the monogram device on the irregular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Burkhard II of Ellerbach held the Augsburg see for over five decades, an unusually long episcopate during which the bishopric navigated persistent friction with the city's increasingly assertive merchant guilds. Small silver pfennigs of this type circulated locally in Swabia alongside the region's dense patchwork of competing ecclesiastical and civic issues — a monetary environment so fragmented that individual markets sometimes refused coins struck just a few miles away.