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1 Pfennig - Henry III of Homburg
| Issuer | Corvey, Abbey of |
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| Year | 1272-1306 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (833-1540) |
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| Reverse description | Architectural facade of Corvey Abbey depicted as a three-towered Romanesque structure with crenellated battlements and arched openings, consistent with the characteristic westwork of the abbey church. A key, the emblematic attribute of St. Stephen to whom the abbey was dedicated, is prominently displayed within the central archway of the building. The design is rendered in bold, schematic relief typical of late 13th-century Westphalian hammered coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1272-1306) |
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Corvey's abbatial coinage from this period occupied an awkward political position — the abbey held imperial immediacy in theory, but its mint rights were perpetually contested by the bishops of Paderborn and the counts of the region. Henry III of Homburg served as abbot during a stretch when such tensions were at their most litigious, and small silver pfennigs like this one were as much a political assertion as a practical currency.
Weinberg's Corvey corpus remains the primary reference for this series, with type 17 among the more sparsely documented issues.