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Denier - Rudolph of Ramsberg-Pfullendorf
| Issuer | County of Pfullendorf |
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| Year | 1170-1180 |
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| Shape | Square (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | A boar passant to the left occupies the central field, rendered in a bold, primitively stylized manner characteristic of 12th-century south German bracteate-influenced coinage. The animal is depicted with pronounced hatching across the body, suggesting texture of hide or bristles. The design is enclosed within a beaded border interspersed with trefoil or three-leafed plant motifs, forming a decorative inner circle. The flan is irregularly trimmed to a roughly square form, typical of hand-cut hammered issues of the period. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is blank, consistent with the single-die striking technique employed for thin hammered pfennigs of this type, where the obverse design appears in incuse relief on the reverse. The surface shows the natural incuse impression of the obverse die with no additional engraving or lettering. |
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Rudolph of Ramsberg-Pfullendorf was among the minor Swabian lords who exercised mint rights during the fragmented authority of the Hohenstaufen period, when imperial coinage policy was loose enough to permit dozens of small counties to strike their own silver. His line died out in the male succession, and the county passed to the Habsburgs in the thirteenth century — making issues from his tenure terminal products of a short-lived independent authority.