1 Pfennig - Conrad II of Rietberg

Conrad II of Rietberg held the Osnabrück see during a period when the bishops of the region were actively asserting temporal authority against encroaching secular lords, particularly the competing claims of the Counts of Tecklenburg. Small silver pfennigs of this type functioned as instruments of that authority — minted right was lordship made tangible. The nearly thirty-year span of this issue suggests die production was intermittent rather than continuous, which accounts for the variation in flan quality and weight consistency documented across the Kennepohl series.