Catalog
Denier 'Bischöflicher Pfennig' - Anonymous
| Issuer | Bavaria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1180-1185 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1180-1185) |
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The years 1180–1185 bracket one of the most consequential political ruptures in medieval German history: the trial and exile of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, by Frederick Barbarossa in 1180. Bavaria was broken up and redistributed, with the Wittelsbach family receiving the reduced duchy. Anonymous episcopal pfennigs issued through this period reflect the administrative vacuum left by Henry's dispossession — ecclesiastical minting authority filling gaps that secular reorganization had not yet resolved.