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1 Pfennig - Otto I
| Issuer | Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt |
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| Year | 1410-1461 |
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| Currency | Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded border, the Bavarian lozengy (fusily) shield — the arms of the Wittelsbach dynasty — is displayed prominently in the central field. The shield is rendered in a bold, somewhat crude hammered style typical of late medieval German bracteate-influenced pfennigs. A small globule appears above the shield, and the entire design is enclosed by a ring of pellets arranged around the inner circumference. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt was a short-lived partition of the Palatinate Wittelsbach holdings, created in 1410 when the brothers of Elector Ludwig III divided the Rhine Palatinate territories among themselves. Otto I received the Mosbach-Neumarkt portion and ruled it as a minor count palatine with limited economic reach — which makes silver pfennig issues from this court among the more obscure products of the fragmented German monetary landscape of the mid-15th century.
The partition was never intended as permanent, and the territory reverted after Otto's line died out in 1461.