1 Pfennig 'Vierzipfeliger Pfennig' - Egino VI

Egino VI ruled the County of Freiburg during a period of mounting financial strain, and the thin bracteate-style pfennigs of this region were already shrinking in both weight and silver content by the late thirteenth century. The distinctive four-cornered form — giving this type its "Vierzipfeliger" designation — was a regional minting convention particular to the upper Rhine, not a decorative choice but a consequence of how the thin flans were cut and struck. Egino VI died in 1318 having mortgaged substantial county assets to the Habsburgs, a fiscal trajectory already visible in the debased coinage of his earlier decades.