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1 Schilling - Sigismund of Sachsen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1440-1443 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | + SIGISMUNDVS EPS |
| Reverse description | Central field features a Gothic lily or fleur-de-lis motif enclosed within a curved, lozenge-shaped or vesica-shaped frame, consistent with the decorative vocabulary of fifteenth-century Franconian ecclesiastical coinage. Small pellets or ornamental stops flank the central design within the inner beaded border. The surrounding circular Latin legend reads + MONETA HERBIPOLENSIS, identifying this as the money of Herbipolis (the Latin name for Würzburg). The entire composition is struck on an irregularly shaped hammered flan, with characteristic uneven edges and softness of strike typical of the period. |
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Sigismund von Sachsen held the Würzburg see for less than a decade, appointed in 1440 amid the turbulent conciliarist politics that had fractured the Church between Pope Eugenius IV and the Council of Basel. His episcopate was administratively contested almost from the start, and coinage issued under his authority is correspondingly sparse. The Ehwald 5502 schilling is among the few types firmly attributable to his short tenure.