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Denier - Diepold of Berg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Passau |
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| Year | 1172-1190 |
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| Reference(s) | Kelln Pas#14 |
| Obverse description | Half-length frontal effigy of a bishop in pontifical vestments, rendered in the Romanesque style typical of 12th-century German ecclesiastical coinage. The figure is depicted with stylized drapery and ornamental detail on the chasuble. The composition is set within a beaded inner circle, with the design occupying the full field of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Diepold of Berg served as Bishop of Passau from 1172 until his death in 1190, a tenure marked by persistent friction with the Babenberg dukes of Austria over territorial jurisdiction along the Danube corridor. The Bishopric's coinage rights in this period were frequently contested, making any surviving issue attributable to his episcopate genuinely scarce.
Kelln Pas#14 is among the thinner-flan bracteate-influenced deniers of the lower Bavarian ecclesiastical mints — not a bracteate proper, but reflecting the same weight reduction pressures reshaping regional silver coinage in the 1170s and 1180s.