1 Pfennig - Theodoric VII

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.