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Denier - Conrad IV
| Issuer | Bishopric of Regensburg (German States) |
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| Year | 1215-1225 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of a bishop facing the viewer, vested in episcopal robes, holding an open book in his right hand and a crosier in his left. Scattered stars appear in the field on either side of the figure, serving as decorative fillers characteristic of the regional hammered coinage of the Regensburg episcopal mint during the early thirteenth century. |
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| Mint | Regensburg |
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Conrad IV served as Bishop of Regensburg from 1204 to 1226, a tenure that overlapped directly with the civil war between the Hohenstaufen and Welf factions for control of the Holy Roman Empire. Regensburg's ecclesiastical mint operated under imperial concession, and the bishop's coinage rights were periodically contested during this period of fragmented royal authority.
At under half a gram, these bracteate-era deniers from the Bavarian episcopal mints are among the lightest silver issues of the region — a reflection of progressive weight reduction across German ecclesiastical coinage through the early thirteenth century.