Denier - Anonymous

The Bishopric of Basel exercised the minting privilege — the Münzrecht — as a grant of imperial authority, and these anonymous deniers were struck during the episcopate when Basel sat at a contested crossroads between the Hohenstaufen imperial sphere and the growing autonomy of the Rhenish ecclesiastical territories. Attribution to specific bishops within this twenty-year window remains unresolved; the anonymity is deliberate, reflecting a period when episcopal mints issued on institutional rather than personal authority.