Pfennig - Henry IV of Isny

Isny, a small imperial town in Swabia, had no obvious connection to the Bishopric of Basel — which is precisely what makes this attribution worth a second look. Henry IV of Isny held the see of Basel from 1impediment 1275, a pontificate squeezed between the turbulent interregnum period and the early consolidation of Rudolph of Habsburg's authority. Small bracteate-influenced pfennigs of this type circulated in the upper Rhine corridor where episcopal, imperial, and municipal monetary rights overlapped in genuinely contested ways.

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Henry IV of Isny held the see of Basel during the early years of Rudolph of Habsburg's reign, a period when the new king was aggressively reasserting imperial rights that had eroded during the interregnum. Episcopal minting in the upper Rhine valley operated under constant pressure from both the crown and the growing ambitions of the city of Basel itself. This pfennig, weighing under half a gram, is among the thinner silver issues of the Basel series — consistent with the regional bracteate tradition that dominated Alemannic coinage well into the late thirteenth century.

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Henry IV of Isny held the see of Basel during the opening years of Rudolph of Habsburg's reign, a period when the new king was actively reasserting imperial prerogatives that had lapsed across the