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1 Pfennig - Theodoric I Schenk of Erbach Miltenberg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1444-1449 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Blank, as is typical of bracteate coinage, where the design is impressed through a single die, leaving a mirror-image incuse impression on the reverse face. |
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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 persistent conflict with the city of Mainz itself over municipal autonomy — tensions that would culminate, a decade after this issue, in the city's formal submission to archiepiscopal authority in 1462. The Miltenberg attribution places production at the archbishopric's mint on the Main river, a secondary facility used when political conditions in Mainz proper made minting there difficult.
Walther 147 is a reasonably well-documented variety within this short emission window.