Katalog
| Emittent | Upper Palatinate |
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| Jahr | 1396-1407 |
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| Nennwert | 1 Pfennig |
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| Aversbeschreibung | A small pointed shield bearing the bipartite Wittelsbach arms: the upper portion displaying the Bavarian lozengy field (fusilly bendwise), and the lower portion charged with a fleur-de-lis. The shield is set within a plain inner circle, with no surrounding legend, consistent with the anonymous bracteate-influenced small coinage of the Palatinate region. |
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| Auflage | ND (1396-1407) |
| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Rupert III ruled the Upper Palatinate while simultaneously pursuing the imperial crown, which he secured in 1400 after the Electoral College deposed Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. His small silver pfennigs circulated through a territory that functioned as much as a political launching pad as a principality — revenues from the Palatinate's Rhine tolls and mining rights bankrolled the ambitions that made him King of Germany.
Götz 198 and Witt 166 place this squarely within the bracteate-influenced pfennig tradition of the Upper Palatinate, struck at low weight to maximize the count from available silver.