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1 Pfennig - Sigismund von Volkersdorf
| Issuer | Bishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1452-1461 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a lozenge-shaped inner frame, the episcopal arms of Salzburg — a shield bearing the saltire — impaled with the personal arms of Bishop Sigismund von Volkersdorf, depicted as a quartered or divided shield. An eagle or heraldic bird is visible to the right side of the shield. The overall design is typical of late medieval Austrian bracteate-style pfennigs, struck on a thin, irregularly shaped flan with flat relief. |
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| Obverse lettering | S |
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Sigismund von Volkersdorf held the see of Salzburg from 1452 until his death in 1461, a tenure marked by ongoing friction with the Habsburg dukes over temporal authority in the archbishopric's territories. Small billon issues of this type circulated primarily within the Salzburg market economy alongside the larger silver pfennig denominations, filling the gap for the most minor transactions of daily commerce. The CNA A78 attribution places this within a tightly documented sequence of Salzburg episcopal pfennigs that numismatists have only systematically catalogued in the late twentieth century.