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1 Scherf
| Issuer | Salzwedel, City of |
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| Year | 1440-1470 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a stylized eagle displayed alongside a key, the two principal civic heraldic charges of Salzwedel, rendered in the crude hammered style typical of small medieval bracteate-related coinage. The devices are enclosed within a plain inner circle, itself surrounded by a border of radiating rays or pellets forming a beaded or striated outer rim. The overall composition is characteristic of the low-denomination Scherf coinage struck by North German municipal authorities in the mid-fifteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Salzwedel, a Hanseatic town straddling the Old and New settlement halves on the Jeetze river, issued these tiny bracteate-style pfennigs under municipal authority during a period when the Altmark region was contested between Brandenburg and local noble interests. At 0.14g, the Scherf was the smallest practical denomination in northern German civic coinage — half a pfennig by value — and surviving examples are frequently found bent or clipped, evidence of hard daily use rather than hoarding.