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1 Pfennig - Egino IV and Egino V
| Issuer | County of Freiburg |
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| Year | 1218-1236 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (1220-1399) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a ruler in low relief, the effigy rendered in a crude, stylized manner characteristic of early 13th-century bracteate-influenced coinage. A small annulet is visible to the upper left of the face, with a cross-scepter depicted to the left of the bust. The entire design is surrounded by a border of raised pellets arranged in a circular pattern around the irregular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Egino IV died in 1236, leaving Egino V to continue the county's coinage under increasingly constrained circumstances — the Zähringen dynasty, whose influence had underpinned Freiburg's regional authority, had already collapsed with the death of Duke Berthold V in 1218, the same year this joint issue begins. The timing is not coincidental. The county was reasserting independent minting rights in the vacuum left by ducal extinction.
Matzke 147 is among the thinner bracteate-style pfennigs of the upper Rhineland tradition.