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1 Pfennig - Rüdiger of Bergheim
| Issuer | Bishopric of Passau |
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| Year | 1233-1249 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Obverse description | Facing effigy of the bishop wearing a mitre, set beneath a rounded arch surmounted by a crenellated tower. The bust is rendered in a stylised Romanesque manner, with the facial features schematically depicted. A pellet or star ornament appears to each side of the arch in the field. No legend is present, the design filling the flan to its irregular edge. |
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| Reverse description | Schematically rendered facing bust contained within a raised inner circle, the head depicted with rudimentary facial features in the Romanesque style typical of mid-13th-century German bracteate-related pfennigs. Twelve small star or rosette ornaments are evenly distributed around the inner circle in the surrounding field, arranged in a ring. The reverse is uninscribed and struck in the same hammered technique as the obverse. |
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Rüdiger von Berg served as Bishop of Passau from 1233 to 1249, a tenure defined largely by friction with the Babenberg dukes of Austria over jurisdictional and territorial claims along the Danube corridor. Passau's mint output during this period was modest, and bracteate-style pfennigs of this diocese are thinly documented — Kelln remains the primary reference precisely because so few systematic studies have tackled this regional coinage.