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1 Pfennig - Theodoric I Schenk of Erbach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1434-1459 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the Mainz archiepiscopal wheel (Rad), a six-spoked wheel emblem serving as the heraldic symbol of the Archbishopric of Mainz, rendered in low relief characteristic of hammered medieval bracteate-style coinage. The wheel device is set against a plain field and surrounded by a border of raised pellets arranged around the coin's circumference. The overall design is typical of late medieval German ecclesiastical pfennig coinage, with irregular flan edges and slightly uneven strike. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Theodoric I Schenk of Erbach served as Archbishop of Mainz from 1434 to 1459, a tenure marked by the city's turbulent struggle with the archbishopric over municipal autonomy. Mainz had repeatedly clashed with its ecclesiastical overlords over taxation and civic rights, and the archbishop's coinage authority was itself a political instrument — small silver pfennigs like this one circulating through a city that would, just a few years after Theodoric's death, lose its imperial free city status entirely following the Mainz Diocesan Feud of 1461.