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1 Schilling - Gottfried IV Schenk of Limpurg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1443 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Gottfried IV Schenk von Limpurg held the episcopal throne of Würzburg from 1443 to 1455, and this schilling falls at the very opening of his tenure. The Schenken von Limpurg were a Franconian ministerial dynasty with deep ties to the imperial court, and Gottfried's appointment came during a period of acute tension between the German episcopate and the conciliarist movement still reverberating from Basel.
Würzburg's mint activity in this decade was irregular, shaped by the bishop's ongoing disputes with the city's burghers over fiscal control — making early issues from Gottfried's reign comparatively sparse in surviving numbers.