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1 Pfennig - Lamprecht of Brunn
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg |
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| Year | 1374-1399 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded circle, a rampant lion facing right with a diagonal cross-bar (baton) overlying the body; the letter D appears to the left of the lion in the field. The design is rendered in the crude, bold style typical of late medieval German bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage. The entire composition is contained within the beaded border, which defines the coin's usable field. No legend is present. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, uniface reverse showing only the incuse mirror impression of the obverse design, characteristic of thin hammered pfennig coinage of the period. |
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Lamprecht von Brunn served as Bishop of Bamberg from 1374 until his death in 1399, a tenure marked by persistent friction with the city's burghers over episcopal economic privileges. Small silver pfennigs of this type circulated in the tight regional economy of Franconia, where Bamberg's mint rights were a recurring point of contention between the bishop and secular competitors, including the Hohenzollern burgraves of Nuremberg pressing from the south.