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Bracteate Pfennig - Berthold von Leiningen Griffen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Bamberg (German States) |
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| Year | 1258-1285 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Uniface issue; the reverse is blank, displaying only the incuse impression of the obverse design as is characteristic of bracteate coinage produced by hammering a single die into a thin silver flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Berthold von Leiningen served as Bishop of Bamberg from 1257 to 1285, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the Hohenzollern burgraves of Nuremberg over territorial jurisdiction in Franconia. Bamberg's bracteate coinage of this period functioned partly as a political instrument — thin single-sided silver pennies were cheap to produce in quantity and useful for asserting monetary authority across disputed territory without the expense of a full two-sided issue.
The CNA Ce11 attribution places this piece within a well-documented sequence for the diocese, though die-to-die variation within the type is considerable.