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1 Pfennig - Frederick V
| Issuer | Burgraviate of Nuremberg |
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| Year | 1396-1407 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the Hohenzollern quartered arms — divided per fess and per pale, displaying the alternating black-and-white diagonal lozengy pattern of the Burgraviate of Nuremberg. The shield is surmounted by a closed helm with a crescent and orb as crest devices, rendered in a simplified Gothic style characteristic of late 14th-century hammered coinage. The design is set within a plain beaded or raised border, with the overall strike showing the irregular flan typical of hand-hammered pfennigs of this period. |
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| Mint | Nuremberg Mint |
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Frederick V ruled the Burgraviate of Nuremberg until 1398, when he died without male heirs and the territory passed to the Hohenzollern line — the same dynasty that would eventually rule Brandenburg-Prussia and, centuries later, the German Empire. These small silver pfennigs were struck during the administrative twilight of an independent burgraviate that effectively ceased to exist as a sovereign entity within a generation of this coinage.