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1 Pfennig 'Pfennig auf Würzburger Schlag' - John I
| Issuer | County of Wertheim |
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| Year | 1373-1407 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | A heraldic eagle displayed on a helmet, positioned centrally within a beaded inner circle, representative of the Wertheim comital arms. The eagle is rendered in a simplified, angular style typical of small hammered silver coinage of the late medieval Franconian region. Partial legends or decorative letters appear in the outer field surrounding the inner circle. The overall die work is characteristic of the Würzburg coin standard (Würzburger Schlag) adopted by the County of Wertheim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John I of Wertheim issued these small silver pfennigs across a reign spanning the last decades of the fourteenth century into the early fifteenth, a period when the fragmented coinage rights of minor Franconian lordships produced a bewildering local variety of bracteate-derived struck pieces. The "Würzburger Schlag" designation places this coin within the regional striking tradition centered on the Würzburg monetary convention — essentially a weight and fineness standard that smaller counts and lords adopted to maintain interoperability with the dominant regional currency.
Wertheim's coinage rights were modest and frequently contested by neighboring ecclesiastical powers.