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Denier - Conrad I of Wittelsbach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1183-1200 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Pfennig) |
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| Reverse description | Stylized depiction of a church or cathedral façade shown frontally, featuring a central tower or portal with arched openings rendered in a schematic Romanesque manner. Flanking turrets or pillars are visible on either side of the principal structure, and decorative elements fill the field. The design is characteristic of the architectural church type common on Mainz episcopal bracteate-influenced pfennige of the period. |
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| Mint | Mainz |
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Conrad I of Wittelsbach had an unusual path to the Mainz archbishopric — he was actually appointed twice, first in 1161 under Frederick Barbarossa's pressure, then again in 1183 after the death of Christian I forced a vacancy. The deniers struck during his second tenure reflect Mainz's position as one of the most powerful ecclesiastical mints in the Rhineland, issuing coinage under imperial authority while the archbishop simultaneously navigated the competing interests of the Wittelsbach dynasty and the Hohenstaufen court.
Walther 34 is among the more precisely attributed types from this reign.