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1 Rappen
| Issuer | Breisach, City of |
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| Year | 1498-1505 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1498-1505) |
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Breisach occupied a strategically critical position on the Rhine at the close of the fifteenth century, and the city's minting rights were exercised under the broader framework of Habsburger authority following Maximilian I's consolidation of Burgundian and Austrian territories in the region. The rappen itself was the smallest silver denomination of the Upper Rhine monetary system, the Rappenmünzbund, a currency union formed in 1387 that attempted to impose regional standardization across an area fragmented by competing lordships.
The Slg. Wüthr reference places this piece among a handful of documented die marriages for this type.