Pfennig Coburg

The Margravate of Meissen's pfennig coinage of this period falls within the tenure of the Wettin margraves, who were aggressively consolidating territorial authority across Saxony and Thuringia throughout the second half of the fourteenth century. Coburg itself sat at a contested southern frontier, and small silver bracteate-style pfennigs functioned as much as instruments of political presence as they did everyday currency. The dating range of nearly three decades reflects continuous die production rather than a discrete issue, with successive dies yielding measurable typological drift across the series.