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1 Schilling - Philip I
| Issuer | Upper Palatinate |
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| Year | 1500-1508 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#52, Götz#153 |
| Obverse description | Three small heraldic shields of arms arranged two over one in the central field, surrounded by a beaded inner circle. A looped hanger device appears above the upper two shields in place of the initial letter 'P'. The composition is rendered in the late Gothic heraldic style typical of early sixteenth-century German coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.