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1 Pfennig - Wedekind II vom Schalksberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Minden |
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| Year | 1369-1383 |
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| Reference(s) | Stange#42 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Bishopric of Minden occupied an awkward position in 14th-century Lower Saxony — a prince-bishopric perpetually squeezed between the ambitions of the Welfs and the encroachments of secular lords. Gerhard von Schalksberg's episcopate saw the see struggling to maintain fiscal and territorial coherence, and small silver pfennigs of this type served the grinding practical needs of local market exchange rather than any prestige function.
Stange's attribution to this bishop rests on die-study comparisons within a tightly clustered regional coinage tradition. The fourteen-year span of the issue reflects extended use of a single die series rather than continuous fresh production.