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1 Pfennig - Theodoric V
| Issuer | Limburg, County of |
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| Year | 1401-1443 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Half-length facing effigy of Count Theodoric V, crowned with a cross-adorned crown, holding a sword upright in his right hand; the Limburg lion displayed on his chest. The figure is rendered in a frontal, stylized Gothic manner characteristic of late medieval hammered coinage. The surrounding legend is separated from the central device by a beaded inner circle. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Theodoric V ruled Limburg an der Lahn during a period when the small Rhenish counties were locked in near-constant jurisdictional friction with the Archbishop of Trier and neighboring lordships over minting rights. Small silver pfennigs of this type circulated locally and were frequently clipped or countermarked as they crossed territorial boundaries — surviving examples with full flans are genuinely uncommon.