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1 Pfennig 'Vierzipfeliger Pfennig'
| Issuer | Breisgau, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1270-1275 |
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| Weight | 0.36 g |
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| Reverse description | Blank die; the reverse is uniface with no design or inscription, consistent with the bracteate-related coinage tradition of the Upper Rhenish region during the late 13th century. |
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| Mintage | ND (1270-1275) |
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The "Vierzipfeliger Pfennig" — the four-cornered pfennig — takes its name from the irregular, deliberately clipped flan shape produced by cutting square blanks from a rolled sheet and striking them off-center, leaving four protruding points. This was a regional bracteate tradition in the upper Rhine valley, where thin silver hohlpfennige and their relatives circulated in dense, fragmented political geography. The Landgraviate of Breisgau sat between the Habsburgs and the Bishop of Basel, with mint rights a constant source of jurisdictional friction during precisely this decade.