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1 Pfennig - Theodoric VII
| Issuer | County of Cleves |
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| Year | 1260-1275 |
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| Weight | 0.61 g |
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| Obverse description | Stylized fortified gateway or castle facade rendered in a simplified Romanesque manner, featuring a broad arched central structure flanked by two smaller turrets or towers to either side. The architectural motif is characteristic of medieval bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage from the Lower Rhine region. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. The legend +*COMES* appears in the field, identifying the issuing count. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Theodoric VII ruled Cleves during a period when the lower Rhine's political geography was being actively contested between the archbishopric of Cologne and the ascending territorial counts. Small silver pfennigs of this type circulated within a tightly bounded regional economy, often passing through toll stations on the Rhine that Cleves controlled and exploited aggressively throughout the mid-thirteenth century. The Noss classification places this among the earliest attributable Cleves pfennigs with reasonable certainty.