Denier - Rudolph of Ramsberg-Pfullendorf

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.