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Pfennig - Johann I von Chalon
| Issuer | Bishopric of Basel |
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| Year | 1327-1335 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Facing mitred bust of the bishop in high relief, depicted frontally with a mitre bearing three pellets along its central ridge. The letters B and A appear in the fields to either side of the bust, serving as an abbreviated reference to Basel. The style is consistent with early 14th-century Swiss ecclesiastical coinage, with simplified facial features characteristic of hammered bracteate-influenced pfennig types. |
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| Obverse lettering | B A |
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Johann I von Chalon held the see of Basel from 1306 until his death in 1365, but coinage attributed to him is conventionally bracketed to the period following a 1327 monetary agreement between the bishop and the city — an arrangement that formalized minting rights amid persistent friction between episcopal and civic authority along the upper Rhine. The HMZ 1#251 attribution places this pfennig squarely within that regulated phase.
Basel's mint was one of the more actively contested in the region during the fourteenth century, with the bishop repeatedly negotiating and renegotiating coin production terms with the burghers.