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Pfennig - Henry IV of Isny
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1275-1285 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of a bishop in three-quarter view turned slightly to the right, wearing a mitre; the right hand is raised in benediction while the left hand holds a sceptre. The effigy is rendered in the flat, linear style typical of late 13th-century ecclesiastical bracteate coinage of the Upper Rhine region. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Henry IV of Isny held the Bishop's seat in Basel from 1275 to the mid-1280s during a period when the city itself was asserting increasingly aggressive communal autonomy — a tension that would eventually strip the bishops of direct urban authority entirely. The Pfennig bracteate issues of this period were the small change of a diocese navigating that erosion of temporal power in real time.