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1 Pfennig - Henry I of Schmiedefeld
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1242-1258 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate-style pfennig struck on a thin flan, the reverse presents a faint incuse mirror impression of the obverse type, showing the ghosted outline of the crowned lion passant left. The surface is uneven and the design detail is indistinct, consistent with the hammered single-die technique employed for thin silver pfennigs of the Bamberg bishopric in the mid-13th century. No independent reverse design or legend is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (1242-1258) |
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Henry I of Schmiedefeld served as Bishop of Bamberg from 1242 to 1257, a tenure defined largely by his conflicts with the Hohenstaufen imperial administration during the final, fractious years of Frederick II's reign. Bamberg's mint rights were among the oldest episcopal privileges in the German lands, formally confirmed repeatedly from the Ottonian period onward. This pfennig belongs to a bracteate-adjacent regional tradition that was being progressively displaced by thicker, two-sided coinage in Franconia during precisely this period.