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1 Pfennig - Rupert II of Pfalz Als Pfandinhaber
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1368-1390 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Facing crowned bust of Rupert II, rendered in a stylized medieval manner with a prominent beard and wide-set eyes, set within a beaded inner circle. The Jülich lion arms appear on the chest of the figure. A partial Latin legend is visible along the upper rim within the beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | .PAL |
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Rupert II held the Palatinate electorate as regent and administrator before acceding outright, and coins struck under his authority as pledgeholder occupy an awkward legal category — issued in his name but against a pledged territorial right rather than full sovereign title. The distinction mattered enormously to contemporaries and is reflected in the phrasing of the issuing authority itself.
Silver pfennigs of this type circulated across the Rhine Palatinate during a period when the Golden Bull of 1356 had only recently codified the electoral princes' minting privileges, making precision about who held what right — and under what legal instrument — a practical monetary question, not merely a ceremonial one.