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Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Bern |
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| Year | 1330 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1330: ND (1330) |
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Bern's civic coinage rights were granted by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in 1218, but the city took over a century to develop a truly independent minting operation. This pfennig falls within the period when Bern was consolidating its position as a dominant force in the Burgundian plateau, using coin production as much as a political statement of autonomy as a practical commercial tool. The Zähringer-founded city had no hereditary ruler to answer to after 1218 — a structural rarity that gave its mint unusual continuity.
At 0.25 g, striking losses and die wear were constant problems for the Bern mint at this scale.