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1 Pfennig - Henry XVI
| Issuer | Bavaria-Landshut, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1393-1450 |
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| Reference(s) | Witt#3433ff |
| Obverse description | Within a lightly incuse square field, a dog passant to the left, its body rendered in low relief with a curled tail raised behind. A stylized tree rises above and to the right of the animal, its canopy represented by a cluster of pellets arranged in a fan-like formation. Additional pellets are scattered in the field around the dog, filling the available space in typical late medieval bracteate-influenced style. The overall design is characteristic of small regional Pfennig coinage of the Bavarian duchies. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Henry XVI ruled Bavaria-Landshut through one of the most fractious periods of Wittelsbach territorial division, when the duchy had been split among competing branches following the 1392 partition of Bavaria. Small silver pfennigs of this type circulated alongside issues from the rival Bavarian lines at Munich and Ingolstadt, each jealously guarding mint rights as a marker of independent sovereignty. The coexistence of multiple near-identical small silver pieces from competing Wittelsbach branches creates persistent attribution difficulties that Wittelsbach numismatists have never fully resolved.