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Denier - Diepold of Berg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Passau |
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| Year | 1172-1190 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig |
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| Reverse description | Frontal bust of a figure holding a palm branch in one hand and a book (bible) in the other, positioned beneath an archway formed by a three-towered church facade rendered in schematic Romanesque style. Two decorative rings or pellets appear on the upper lateral fields flanking the central tower. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mint | Passau |
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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.