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Dünnpfennig - Theodorich
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1041-1055 |
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| Currency | Pfennig (999-1122) |
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| Obverse lettering | T HE DE RIOCI |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Theodorich (or Dietrich I) of Basel held the bishopric during a period when the right to strike coin in the upper Rhine region was fiercely contested between episcopal and imperial authority. These thin bracteate-style pfennigs — the name literally means "thin penny" — were produced at a moment when Basel's mint was asserting itself as a serious regional monetary presence under Salian imperial patronage. The fabric is notoriously fragile, and surviving examples free of cracks or edge losses are genuinely uncommon.