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Pfennig - Hartmann von Froburg
| Issuer | Zofingen, City of |
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| Year | 1240-1281 |
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| Reference(s) | HMZ 1#1-144, HMZ 1#1-145 |
| Obverse description | Bracteate-style uniface pfennig struck on a thin flan with four pinched lobes forming the coin's edge. At the upper portion, a Janus-type double head is depicted in relief, while below it appears a frontal facing head identified as St. Mauritius, patron saint of Zofingen. All devices are contained within a raised inner circle. The legend 'Z OV IC', an abbreviation of ZOVICEN or Zofingen, is distributed around the field between the two heads. |
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| Obverse lettering | Z OV IC |
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Hartmann von Froburg held the countship of Zofingen during a period when the town was actively consolidating municipal privileges, and coinage rights were among the most jealously guarded of these. The Froburg dynasty itself was extinguished in the male line by 1367, making issues tied to named members of the family useful anchors for attribution within what is otherwise a poorly documented sequence of medieval Swiss bracteate-adjacent issues.
The dual HMZ references reflect genuine scholarly uncertainty about whether the two catalogue entries represent distinct dies or a single type with variant classification.