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Pfennig
| Issuer | Brno, City of |
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| Year | 1452-1469 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (⅐) |
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| Reverse description | Uniface issue; the reverse is blank and undesigned, showing only the rough, striated surface of the hammered flan with no devices, legends, or decorative elements. The surface exhibits the characteristic flow lines and irregularities produced by the hammering process during striking. |
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| Mintage | ND (1452-1469) |
| Additional information |
Brno held the right to mint its own coinage as a royal free city under the Bohemian crown, a privilege that made its issues politically distinct from the broader Moravian episcopal and noble coinages circulating simultaneously. The pfennigs produced under this civic authority during the mid-fifteenth century fall within a period of sustained monetary fragmentation across the Bohemian lands, partly driven by the Hussite wars' disruption of central minting authority in the preceding decades.
The narrow dating window reflects attribution by hoard evidence rather than documentary record — precise die sequences for Brno civic pfennigs of this period remain incompletely catalogued.