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| Issuer | Lordship of Schönforst |
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| Year | 1358-1391 |
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| Value | 2 Schillings |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Mintage | ND (1358-1391) |
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Schönforst was a minor Rhenish lordship whose coinage rights were exercised by Reinhard I during a period when the lower Rhine was saturated with competing local issues — many of them debased. This piece falls within that fractious monetary environment where smaller lords struck silver partly to assert jurisdictional standing, partly because the demand for small-denomination coin genuinely outpaced what the larger minting authorities could supply.
The Menadier reference places this among a tightly catalogued group; the vdCh 8 variants 29.11–12 indicate at least two documented die pairings exist for this type.