Catalog
1 Schilling - Philip I
| Issuer | Upper Palatinate |
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| Year | 1500-1508 |
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| Currency | Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | A boldly rendered rampant lion facing left, crowned, with an elaborately stylized mane and curling foliate tail filling the field in the late Gothic manner. The lion is depicted within a beaded inner circle, with a partial Latin legend visible in the outer margin. The overall treatment reflects the vigorous heraldic engraving style characteristic of Upper Palatinate hammered coinage of the early sixteenth century. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Philip I, Count Palatine of the Rhein and Duke of Bavaria, held the Upper Palatinate during a period when the proliferation of small regional silver coinages across the Holy Roman Empire was becoming administratively unmanageable. The Schilling functioned as a regional accounting unit as much as a circulating coin, its value constantly renegotiated against the taler-weight standards being hammered out at imperial monetary diets. Philip died in 1508, making the terminal date of this issue coincide precisely with the end of his rule.