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1 Pfennig - Marquard Sebastian Schenk of Stauffenberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg (German States) |
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| Year | 1685-1690 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#77 |
| Obverse description | Two heraldic shields displayed side by side, each bearing the respective arms of the Bishopric of Bamberg and the personal arms of Bishop Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg, surmounted by a shared princely crown. The date appears in the upper field between the crown and the inner border, divided on either side of the crown. The coin is enclosed within a raised inner beaded border, with a prominent milled or rope-like outer border following the irregular flan edge. No legend is present; the heraldic composition occupies the full field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg held the see of Bamberg from 1683 until his death in 1693, a tenure marked by the slow economic recovery of a region still scarred by the Thirty Years' War's devastation of Franconia. Small silver pfennig issues of this type served the grinding daily commerce of a diocese that had lost a substantial portion of its population to conflict and plague within living memory of the men who struck them.