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Denier 'Vierzipfeliger Pfennig'
| Issuer | Bishopric of Constance |
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| Year | 1150-1160 |
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| Reference(s) | CC#1 |
| Obverse description | Schematic facing bust of a bishop rendered in a bold, archaic Romanesque style, with a mitre or ecclesiastical headdress depicted by parallel horizontal lines above the forehead. The face is stylized with large circular eyes, a broad nose, and simplified facial features typical of 12th-century Germanic bracteate-related coinage. A crozier curves over the right shoulder of the figure. The entire design is contained within an irregular flan, with the four-pointed (Vierzipfeliger) form characteristic of this issue. |
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| Reverse description | Blank uniface reverse, as is standard for this type of thin hammered medieval pfennig, with no design, inscription, or decorative element struck on the reverse side. |
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| Mintage | ND (1150-1160) |
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