Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Pfennig - Otto of Rietberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Paderborn |
|---|---|
| Year | 1277-1307 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Pfennig |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of a bishop in pontifical vestments, holding a crozier in his right hand. The figure is rendered in a flat, stylised Romanesque manner characteristic of late 13th-century German ecclesiastical coinage. A patriarchal cross appears above the bishop's head. A partial legend is visible along the right margin of the coin. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Otto of Rietberg held the see of Paderborn from 1277 to 1307, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the local nobility and ongoing struggles to assert episcopal authority over the diocese's temporal holdings. Bracteate and thin-flan silver pfennige of this period from the Westphalian ecclesiastical mints are frequently found in hoard context — the regional instability of the late thirteenth century prompted repeated concealment of small silver currency.
The Weingärtner Corvey reference locates this piece within a tightly documented Westphalian series.